Posted on 10/07/2014 6:42:39 AM PDT by BenLurkin
The discovery demonstrates the presence of an ancient human population in America's Far West at the end of the last ice age. It was found that human coprolites were of Siberia-east Asian origins and is between 13,000 and 13,200 years old.
The findings also confirmed that these fossilized samples were a thousand years older than the Clovis civilization, Paleo-Indian people who were used to reside in New Mexico around 11,500 years ago.
Jenkins's work at the site began in 2002, but archaeologists first began exploring the caves as early as 1938. He said, "As we have used increasingly sophisticated scientific techniques in recent years, our understanding of the cultural and megafaunal remains at the site has grown dramatically".
(Excerpt) Read more at austriantribune.com ...
Proving that janitorial contractors have not changed in 14,000 years. Just as lazy.
“I really don’t see how they know it was of Siberia-east Asian origins. Science makes a lot of stuff up.”
If science was restricted to what you know or what ‘seems’ right to you, we’d still be in the dark ages. Luckily for us, science has an array of tools (as magical as they might seem to you) that allow us to do lots of stuff with some precision.
Paging Mike Rowe...
Fortune cookie wrappers were in the cave with the fecal matter!
Well said.
I guess some shit doesn’t stink.
LOL!
14,300-year-old Dried Human Feces found in Paisley Caves Next to Bones of Proctorologus Rex.
“Grog, I have told you a million times not to do your business inside the cave! Well, this time, you can damn well clean it up yourself or I’m going home to Mama.”
During the period of my life when I was learning a lot more than I was forgetting, Clovis was the marker for the earliest human presence in the Western Hemisphere and it coincided with the presence of an ice free corridor across the Bering Strait and down through Alaska to the edge of the Continental Ice Sheet. This became the anchor for a simplistic theory that there was a single wave of migration, by land, from Siberia.
That theory has endured assault after assault in the years since, with a building body of evidence that like many other parts of the world, the Americas probably experienced waves of migration by various means over a long period of time and likely not just limited to movements from Asia. DNA has helped because we have good data to show halogroup distribution from both present and ancient populations. When I was a pup, science had just discovered DNA and had no idea what information was within those double helixes.
Our knowledge has expanded exponentially within my lifetime and will likely do so again in my children and grandchildren’s lifetimes. Check back again in 50-75 years and you will find that we have a much richer story and we will have discovered that some things that we thought was true today, wasn’t. People never needed the internet and frequent flyer miles to get around when they wanted to.
...demonstrates the presence of an ancient human population in America's Far West... between 13,000 and 13,200 years old... a thousand years older than the Clovis civilization...
The place still reeked of pachouli.
Messy housekeepers, no?
Hee Hee Hee!
“Oooo that Smell...
Can’t ya smell that smell?”
Yes, several.
What happened in between?
Warm Interglacials. The one we're in right now is called the Holocene. The previous one, which ended about 115,000 years ago and was warmer than our Holocene, has been named the Eemian by geologists. IIRC, at least 5 Ice Ages followed by warm Interglacials have been identified geologically.
I can just picture Paul Lynde saying “Don’t touch it; it might be Ebola”
Global warming!
“and smells like pepper”
Oh, I’m sure they had cruelty-free bear discouragement kits.
Pepper indeed! Harrumph.
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