In an unprecedented discovery, scientists have reconstructed the complete human genome of a Stone Age woman from a 5,700-year-old piece of birch pitch — a type of prehistoric chewing gum — found at ...

From the Publisher: Although Juicy Fruit® gum was introduced to North Americans in 1893, Native Americans in Mesoamerica were chewing gum thousands of years earlier. And although in the last decade ...

Scientists say that for the first time, they've managed to extract an entire ancient human genome from anything other than human bones or teeth.... What Ancient 'Chewing Gum' Can Tell Us About Life ...

Neolithic people seem to have enjoyed chewing gum just as much as a bored kid in calculus. Their discarded wads are even revealing surprising details on human life as far back as 6,000 years ago. Tar ...