14,000-Year-Old Poop Could Hint at Oldest Known Human Settlement in North America

ScienceAlert ^ | Tuesday, July 21, 2020 | David Nield

[SunkenCiv]

rest of the Paisley Cave keyword:

• 'Tantalizing' discovery of ancient tool in Oregon prompts 'extreme skepticism' [2015]
• 14,300-year-old Dried Human Feces found in Paisley Caves [2014]
• When Did Humans Come to the Americas? [2013]
• Native Americans arrived to find natives already there, fossil poo shows [2012]
• Oregon cave discovery suggests lost ancient American culture (Pre-Clovis) [2012]
• Fossilized human feces hints at long-lost, 13,500-year-old West Coast culture [2012]
• Prehistoric Oregon latrine trove of fossil DNA [2008]
• Oregon Discovery Challenges Beliefs About First Humans [2008]
• Finding Pre-Clovis Humans in the Oregon High Desert [2008]
• Fossil Feces Push Back Earliest Date of Humans in Americas [2008]
• Fossilized feces found in Oregon suggest earliest human presence in North America [2008]
• Archaeologist Talks About Oregon's Early Natives [2004]

[SunkenCiv]

[Vermont Lt]

I just left an artifact upstairs if they want one. Or do I need to leave it there 14,000 years?

[Buckeye McFrog]

Cities in Oregon had a homeless poop problem even 14.000 years ago?

[scope721]

Also found, prehistoric shopping cart and needles

[Pearls Before Swine]

Can you imagine squatting in the primeval woods, and realizing that this could be the longest surviving artifact you’ll leave for archaeologists of the distant future?

[RatRipper]

How do they know it wasn’t Bigfoot????

[sleddogs]

I guess they really do know their sh*t.

[rightwingcrazy]

“pre-dates the Clovis culture thought to have been established about 11,500 years ago.”

OK, someone must owe them reparations, probably the descendants of those Clovis people. Pony up, and be ashamed of yourselves.

[myerson]

14,000 years? Obviously from an ancient Christmas fruitcake.

[albie]

They’ve got to be shi&&in me!

[Alberta's Child]

I’m sure Joe Biden has a 14,000-year old turd somewhere in his diaper.

[Track9]

He should have written his name in it.

[SunkenCiv]

...geoarchaeologist Lisa-Marie Shillito from Newcastle University in the UK ..

Carrying coal doesn't sound so bad now, eh?.

[aMorePerfectUnion]

Most startling discovery...

Undissolved Centrum tablets!

[DEPcom]

Darn it I just mess up my time travel, hopefully they do not compare it to 23andMe.

[SunkenCiv]

It relates to the size of the coprolite. Among geoarchaeologists, sasquatch is known as "Big Tush".

[monkeyshine]

Oregon makes sense if you believe the first settlers came to America crossing the Bering Strait - then moving south along to coast to warmer weather.

[SunkenCiv]

:^) Oregon can't be made to make any sense at this point .

[rightwingcrazy]

“Carrying coal doesn’t sound so bad now, eh?”

She’s rebranded it as “coprolite” to make a niche in an otherwise saturated market.