{"id":180817,"date":"2024-01-18T20:27:03","date_gmt":"2024-01-19T02:27:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/01\/dna-from-ancient-gum-reveals-secrets-of-stone-age-dentistry"},"modified":"2024-01-18T20:27:03","modified_gmt":"2024-01-19T02:27:03","slug":"dna-from-ancient-gum-reveals-secrets-of-stone-age-dentistry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/01\/dna-from-ancient-gum-reveals-secrets-of-stone-age-dentistry","title":{"rendered":"DNA From Ancient Gum Reveals Secrets of Stone Age Dentistry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/dna-from-ancient-gum-reveals-secrets-of-stone-age-dentistry2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Mesolithic Scandinavians likely faced oral health issues, with studies on ancient birch tar revealing signs of gum disease, tooth decay, and diverse dietary habits.<\/p>\n<p>Members of a hunter-gatherer group that lived in south-western Scandinavia during the Mesolithic era \u2014 approximately 10,000 years ago \u2014 may have been affected by tooth decay and gum disease, according to a study published today (January 18) in Scientific Reports.<\/p>\n<p>DNA Analysis of Birch Tar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mesolithic Scandinavians likely faced oral health issues, with studies on ancient birch tar revealing signs of gum disease, tooth decay, and diverse dietary habits. Members of a hunter-gatherer group that lived in south-western Scandinavia during the Mesolithic era \u2014 approximately 10,000 years ago \u2014 may have been affected by tooth decay and gum disease, according [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1495],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-180817","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180817","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=180817"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180817\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=180817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=180817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=180817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}