[SunkenCiv]

"Red Lady" skeleton [Sedimentary Ancient DNA From Spain's El Mirón Cave Studied | Archaeology Magazine | February 11, 2025]

University of New Mexico

[BenLurkin]

Extract DNA from dirt after 20,000 years?

Astounding.

[silent majority rising]

Contamination from dinner artifacts (meaning bones from supper) has confused many sites.

[Adder]

I’ve had dogs act like aholes but not doles.

Interesting that you can’t get DNA from bones and teeth reliably, but you can from dirt.

[Chewbarkah]

Whoever composed the parts on this black background deserves high praise; what a beautiful, albeit eerie, composition. I feel like I am seeing a shaman shape-shifting into a wolf, dis-integrated by some warp of time.

Thanks for posting!

[blam]

Ancient DNA From El Mirón Cave Reveals A 46,000-Year Lineage Of The Red Lady