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OMG, please tell me the GEICO cavemen will not eventually turn into life imitating art.
Cool!
Excellent news. I wonder what DNA types have been found?
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I read somewhere that Pueblo were descendants of the Anasazi who lived in Canyon de Chelly.
Can DNA be used to trace families back through Pueblo/Anasazi/Central Mexico?
(I was told no by a family ancestry DNA lab.)
I am so thoroughly unknowlegable in technical science, I doubt I can even ask a valid question.
But, I’m gonna try anyway. How can there be any confidence that the DNA found on the chewed cud is from the cud chewer? The caves have been in existence since the cud was chewed, so it seems safe to assume that others have been in and out of the caves over the many centuries. How do they separate DNA unique to the chewer from all the possible/potential/probable contamination?
I do realize that in such issues, there’s a different level of pristine than what would be required for legal or criminal trial purposes.
I’m not trying to refute or poopoo the development, just trying to get up to speed in the how’s and whatfors.
PS. I’m pretty sure I wont be able to understand any answers but... maybe I can gleen enough hints on where to start reading up.
While the important news is the DNA recovery, I’m more than a little curious about the chaw and its purpose.
1. Was it, in the words of a modern company, a “mild sweet chew.”
2. Purpose: Was it dietary (Man, I’m starving. Here, chew some cactus.)
3. Purpose: I know that yucca cactus has been made into soap and candles. Were they brushing their teeth or simply extracting material for candles?