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

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

[rdl6989]

I wonder how many pre-clovis sites are now under water that won’t be found?

[JBW1949]

“...How do they know it wasn’t Bigfoot????...”

His name is Darrell....

[Rurudyne]

You know, we hear about how indelibly human poop marks a place for centuries afterwards ... I’ve never heard anyone studying a similar effect to research ancient deer or wolf populations.

I wonder why that is?

I mean, unless Mankind is somehow special you would expect that you could find evidence of at least herd species in the soil too from which you could infer which species were common and what their populations might have been like ... consequently then infer things about their environment too.

Seems like it would be a life’s work for some PhD wannabe.

[Adder]

Ain’t dat some shlt?

[Rurudyne]

Actually, that’s still getting gifted around every year as people try to get rid of it.

[Rurudyne]

Discounting the Flood we’re living in the highlands of whatever existed during the ice age. Our world would be their fly over country.

[SunkenCiv]

Using DNA to figure out the species is a breakthrough. Study of non-human coprolites of living species in the Americas probably won't really tell anyone much. Coprolites that don't match up to living species will probably be studied now. OTOH:

• Attempted DNA extraction from a Rancho La Brea Columbian mammoth (Mammuthus columbi):
  prospects for ancient DNA from asphalt deposits [2014]

[Governor Dinwiddie]

This poop which they found will be flushed as soon as it reveals that it was produced by a white person. *POOF!* Gone.
 

[Texas Eagle]

Interesting. Humans have supposedly been on this planet for billions of years but the oldest poop they can find is only 14,000 years old.

Funny how whenever artifacts like tools, cooking utensils, Nanzi Pelosi wigs, etc., are found, they're always something like 10 to 15 thousand years old.

[cranked]

Hancock, Magicians of the Gods.....

[antidemoncrat]

I heard they fount it in a 14,000 year old stone commode.

[blueunicorn6]

“The well known Paisley Caves in Oregon”

“After you’ve seen the sh*t in Portland, come see the sh*t at the Paisley Caves! Just off Hwy 23. Only 10 minutes away!”

[JimRed]

Can you imagine squatting in the primeval woods...

In the woods or out in the open, very little likelihood of the feces surviving past the next rainstorm. Under a rock shelter, in a cave, a protected desert location maybe?

[JimRed]

Yep, caves it is.

[SunkenCiv]

It's funny that people who post that kind of comment are never troubled by its complate lack of facts.

[Pearls Before Swine]

Details, details.

[SunkenCiv]

I'll never wear paisley again, that's for sure.

[Jewbacca]

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

Just flush it before it votes Democrat.

[JimRed]

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

Off topic, but I recall a human waste based fertilizer being sold at one time- called Milorganite IIRC.

[Songcraft]