Diet Of Stone Age Teens Revealed By 10,000-Year-Old 'Gum'
Verner AlexandersenCasts of the 10,000-year-old chewing gum found in Sweden. Ten thousand years ago, a group of Stone Age adolescents in Sweden chomped down on a tar-like black resin made of birch bark. Much like modern day teenagers, they spat the chewing gum out when they were done with it, oblivious to the fact that