
                         Roanoke Times
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DATE: SUNDAY, August 15, 1993                   TAG: 9308150095
SECTION: NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL                    PAGE: A-4   EDITION: METRO 
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DATELINE: STOCKHOLM, SWEDEN                                LENGTH: Short

DOES 9,000-YEAR-OLD GUM LOSE ITS FLAVOR?

Archaeologists have found chewing gum believed to be 9,000 years old, and tooth marks showed it was chewed by a stone-age teen-ager, a report said Saturday.

The dark-colored gum was made of resin sweetened with honey, the Expressen newspaper said.

Archaeologist Bengt Nordqvist was quoted as saying the gum may be the oldest found in the world. It was among finds at an excavation of a small stone-age community outside Ellos in western Sweden.

- Associated Press

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