Prehistoric pendant’s DNA reveals the person who held it.

An innovative method reveals that an ancient trinket was handled by a woman some 20,000 years ago.

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-01482-3

DNA analysis shows that this pendant, which might have hung from a necklace, was made of the tooth of a wapiti (Cervus canadensis).

Photo credit: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.

Article by Elissa Welle.