20,000 years ago, a woman living in Siberia put on a pendant fashioned from a deer tooth. She wore it for a long time, perhaps until she died or lost the artifact. Now, thousands of years later, that pendant has been found and scientists have extracted the DNA of the woman who wore it, using an innovative method that promises to answer many questions about ancient peoples and their way of life.

Dan and Bernie discuss this and of course a few other things!

Links:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silurian_hypothesis

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-023-06035-2

https://www.haaretz.com/archaeology/2018-08-23/ty-article-magazine/archaeologists-find-hybrid-neanderthal-denisovan-in-siberian-cave/0000017f-f5ad-d460-afff-ffef37020000

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