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• DNA reveals stone age teenager as chewer of 10,500-year-old ‘gum’

  23-11-2025 21:26
  The prehistoric birch tar found in Estonia contained traces of saliva that were analysed by genetics expertsA piece of stone age “gum” chewed by a teenage girl 10,500 years ago has been discovered by archaeologists in Estonia.The Institute of History and Archaeology at the University of Tartu discovered the prehistoric birch tar had impressions of teeth marks and traces of saliva. Continue reading...
  
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• Rosemary Church obituary

  23-11-2025 18:33
  My mother, Rosemary Church, who has died aged 86, was a primary school teacher and a local historian whose work focused on Faringdon in Oxfordshire, the town where she lived for much of her life.In 1978 she founded the Faringdon and District Archaeological and Historical Society, whose members catalogued gravestones in churches, transcribed documents of local interest, collected photographs from a bygone age, put on exhibitions and talks, and set up a history resource centre for use by the commu
  
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