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Prehistoric Oregon latrine trove of fossil DNA
AP ^ | 21 Sep 2008 | Jeff Barnard

Posted on 09/22/2008 2:06:38 PM PDT by BGHater

For some 85 years, homesteaders, pot hunters and archaeologists have been digging at Paisley Caves, a string of shallow depressions washed out of an ancient lava flow by the waves of a lake that comes and goes with the changing climate.

Until now, they have found nothing conclusive-arrowheads, baskets, animal bones and sandals made by people who lived thousands of years ago on the shores of what was then a 40-mile-long lake, but is now a sagebrush desert on the northern edge of the Great Basin.

But a few years ago, University of Oregon archaeologist Dennis Jenkins and his students started digging where no one had dug before. What the team discovered in an alcove used as a latrine and trash dump has elevated the caves to the site of the oldest radiocarbon dated human remains in North America.

Coprolites - ancient feces - were found to contain human DNA linked directly to modern-day American Indians with Asian roots and radiocarbon dated to 14,300 years ago. That's 1,000 years before the oldest stone points of the Clovis culture, which for much of the 20th century was believed to represent the first people in North America.

Dennis Jenkins, a University of Oregon archaeologist, (center) hands up a device to measure the temperature at Paisley Caves.

Archaeologists hike to the Paisley Caves outside Paisley, Ore., site of the discovery of coprolites dated 14,300 years old - the oldest radiocarbon-dated human remains in North America.

(Excerpt) Read more at sfgate.com ...


TOPICS: Miscellaneous; US: Oregon
KEYWORDS: clovis; coprolite; coprolites; dennisjenkins; dna; fossil; godsgravesglyphs; meadowcroft; oregon; paisleycaves; preclovis; sumnerlakebasin
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1 posted on 09/22/2008 2:06:39 PM PDT by BGHater
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To: SunkenCiv

Crappy story ping.


2 posted on 09/22/2008 2:07:04 PM PDT by BGHater (Democracy is the road to socialism.)
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To: BGHater

Quick, call the Obama campaign; the’ve unearthed more Dem voters!


3 posted on 09/22/2008 2:09:06 PM PDT by rfp1234 (Phodopus campbelli: household ruler since July 2007.)
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To: BGHater

They found Helen Thomas’ powder room??


4 posted on 09/22/2008 2:13:16 PM PDT by reagan_fanatic ("And how can this be? For I am the Kwisatz Haderach! " - Barack Obama)
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To: BGHater

With the modern sewage and disposal systems of most “western cultures” today, nearly eliminating most of the record of human bodily wastes, some archeologists in 40,000 years will conclude that “humans” in our era only had large population groups in Africa, parts of the Middle East and in small groups in different places in Asia; and will puzzle over the giant remains of a “non-human” (no crappy DNA) culture that dominated the northern latitudes and “colonies” in other areas.


5 posted on 09/22/2008 2:15:57 PM PDT by Wuli
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To: BGHater; abcraghead; aimhigh; Archie Bunker on steroids; bicycle thug; blackie; coffeebreak; ...
Oregon Ping

Please notify me via FReepmail if you would like to be added to or taken off the Oregon Ping List.

6 posted on 09/22/2008 2:31:28 PM PDT by Salvation ( †With God all things are possible.†)
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To: BGHater
"Coprolites" ...................... ancient feces

If I ever sign up at DU as a freeper troll again, "Coprolites" will be my screen name

7 posted on 09/22/2008 2:33:29 PM PDT by Popman (McCain as POTUS is odious, Obama as POTUS is unthinkable.)
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To: Wuli

Probably more campers use our western deserts than you think.


8 posted on 09/22/2008 2:35:24 PM PDT by Eternal_Bear (`)
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To: BGHater

Where is Paisley?


9 posted on 09/22/2008 2:37:05 PM PDT by TruthWillWin
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To: BGHater

“Coprolites”
Ossified offal.


10 posted on 09/22/2008 2:43:48 PM PDT by Dr. Bogus Pachysandra ("Don't touch that thing")
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To: BGHater

Dig THAT shit!


11 posted on 09/22/2008 2:59:15 PM PDT by Right Wing Assault ("..this administration is planning a 'Right Wing Assault' on values and ideals.." - John Kerry)
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To: rfp1234
the’ve unearthed more Dem voters!

And each piece will vote at least once. Look out, McCain!

12 posted on 09/22/2008 3:02:41 PM PDT by Right Wing Assault ("..this administration is planning a 'Right Wing Assault' on values and ideals.." - John Kerry)
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not this sh-, oh, sorry... ;’)

Finding Pre-Clovis Humans in the Oregon High Desert
The Archaeology Channel | Dennis jenkins
Posted on 04/15/2008 6:50:32 PM PDT by blam
Finding Pre-Clovis Humans in the Oregon High Desert
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2002179/posts

Oregon Discovery Challenges Beliefs About First Humans
PBS | 7-1-2008 | Lee Hochberg
Posted on 07/01/2008 8:20:04 PM PDT by blam
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2039558/posts


13 posted on 09/22/2008 3:06:24 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/_______Profile hasn't been updated since Friday, May 30, 2008)
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To: Dr. Bogus Pachysandra; Fred Nerks
14,300 year old Coprolites?

What about the scent of 14,300 year old flatulance?

The gaseous state of Caprolites?

Caprolene, the lode stone of Green Earthers.

Smell it and believe.

14 posted on 09/22/2008 3:06:49 PM PDT by Candor7 (Fascism? All it takes is for good men to say nothing, (http://www.theobamafile.com/))
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15 posted on 09/22/2008 3:07:12 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/_______Profile hasn't been updated since Friday, May 30, 2008)
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Awman? Who writes this $#|!?
16 posted on 09/22/2008 3:11:37 PM PDT by Monkey Face (Borrow money from a pessimist ~~ they don't expect it back.)
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To: Popman

That’s almost as good as that famous Greek warrior, Testikles.


17 posted on 09/22/2008 3:18:08 PM PDT by ApplegateRanch (The Great Obamanation of Desolation, attempting to sit in the Oval Office, where he ought not..)
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To: Popman
"Coprolites" will be my screen name

We have a darts league in my town, and one of the teams is named "Coprolites." It originally comprised a University professor and some of his graduate students, all geologists.

18 posted on 09/22/2008 3:26:08 PM PDT by dorothy ( “Here comes the orator! With his flood of words, and his drop of reason.” —Benjamin Franklin)
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To: TruthWillWin

South Eastern Oregon.

It’s about 35-40 mile NW of Plush.

Or, about 40-45 miles NE of Beatty; 20-25 mile SSE of Summer Lake (the town, not the lake).

Okay; okay.

Series, It is in the sage brush desert between the south end of Lake Albert & the south end of Summer Lake (the lake, not the town). That puts it about 70 mile ENE of Klamath Falls, and 35 miles slightly W of N from Lakeview. It is near the south end of Oregon-31 that runs from US-97 near LaPine to US-395 near Lakeview.


19 posted on 09/22/2008 3:33:02 PM PDT by ApplegateRanch (The Great Obamanation of Desolation, attempting to sit in the Oval Office, where he ought not..)
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To: ApplegateRanch

Thanks. Plush I’m not familiar with but know where Beatty and Summer Lake is.


20 posted on 09/22/2008 3:40:04 PM PDT by TruthWillWin
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