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Fossil Feces Push Back Earliest Date of Humans in Americas
Foxnews.com ^
| April 04, 2008
Posted on 04/04/2008 7:47:46 AM PDT by Malone LaVeigh
New evidence shows humans lived in North America more than 14,000 years ago, 1,000 years earlier than had previously been known.
Discovered in a cave in Oregon, fossil feces yielded DNA indicating these early residents were related to people living in Siberia and East Asia, according to a report in Thursday's online edition of the journal Science.
"This is the first time we have been able to get dates that are undeniably human, and they are 1,000 years before Clovis," said Dennis L. Jenkins, a University of Oregon archaeologist, referring to the Clovis culture, well known for its unique spear-points that have been studied previously.
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TOPICS: Miscellaneous; US: Oregon
KEYWORDS: archeology; clovis; coprolite; coprolites; dennisjenkins; godsgravesglyphs; meadowcroft; oregon; paisleycaves; preclovis; sumnerlakebasin
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To make sure the Oregon cave material hadn't been contaminated with modern DNA, the researchers tested more than 50 people who worked at the site.
Did that include this guy?
To: Malone LaVeigh
Looks like they enjoyed their straw.
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posted on
04/04/2008 7:49:04 AM PDT
by
Puppage
(You may disagree with what I have to say, but I shall defend to your death my right to say it)
To: Malone LaVeigh
They were in a cave, so I guess that means they came from a caveman.
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posted on
04/04/2008 7:49:20 AM PDT
by
marktwain
To: Malone LaVeigh
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posted on
04/04/2008 7:50:12 AM PDT
by
xcamel
(Forget the past and you're doomed to repeat it.)
To: Malone LaVeigh
We had fiber back then too.
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posted on
04/04/2008 7:53:17 AM PDT
by
WakeUpAndVote
(Typical white man.)
To: Malone LaVeigh
sounds like a load of crap to me.
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posted on
04/04/2008 7:53:20 AM PDT
by
Oztrich Boy
(NO.. I don;t tag sarcasm)
To: Malone LaVeigh
To: Malone LaVeigh
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posted on
04/04/2008 7:58:58 AM PDT
by
GulfBreeze
(McCain is our nominee. Yeah... I guess.)
To: Oztrich Boy
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posted on
04/04/2008 7:59:27 AM PDT
by
TC Rider
(The United States Constitution ? 1791. All Rights Reserved.)
To: Malone LaVeigh
Can’t be the earth is only 2,000 years old. /s
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posted on
04/04/2008 7:59:30 AM PDT
by
JackDanielsOldNo7
(On guard until the seal is broken)
To: Malone LaVeigh
I bet they were smoothies. Only a smoothie would drop a pile like that.
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posted on
04/04/2008 8:00:28 AM PDT
by
devane617
(My Kharma Ran Over Your Dogma)
To: devane617
To: Malone LaVeigh
Jenkins said that discoveries like those in the Oregon caves "help us to reconstruct the American past." "Our heritage is really important and it is important to the majority of the American public. If you don't know where you come from, it's hard to have a feeling of community, of participation."
Mr. Jenkins, unless the majority of the American public that you refer to consists of Native Americans, none of this reflects on their heritage. The majority of Americans and their ancestors came from other parts of the world and are not descendants of these cave dwellers with indoor plumbing.
Any American heritage that some of us have, goes back only a few hundred years, at best.
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posted on
04/04/2008 8:26:09 AM PDT
by
varon
(Allegiance to the constitution, always. Allegiance to a political party, never.)
To: Malone LaVeigh
How do you carbon date poo?
To: xcamel
To: Malone LaVeigh
"
"This is the first time we have been able to get dates that are undeniably human, and they are 1,000 years before Clovis," said Dennis L. Jenkins,..."
Must ... find ... evidence .. of ... pre-Clovis ... Asian ... migrations...
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posted on
04/04/2008 9:00:04 AM PDT
by
MrBambaLaMamba
(Hussein Obama for Caliph 2008!)
To: Malone LaVeigh
What a claim to fame for that researcher ...finding the oldest turds in N. America.
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posted on
04/04/2008 9:22:53 AM PDT
by
The Great RJ
("Mir we bleiwen wat mir sin" or "We want to remain what we are." ..Luxembourg motto)
To: Malone LaVeigh
They are saying they found human DNA in these feces? Hmmmmm. ;)
To: Malone LaVeigh
"It's so easy even a caveman can crap in a cave.".
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posted on
04/04/2008 10:39:47 AM PDT
by
OESY
To: Malone LaVeigh
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04/04/2008 12:24:26 PM PDT
by
LiteKeeper
(Beware the secularization of America; the Islamization of Eurabia)
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