Cave containing early human DNA dubbed historic

[Turborama]

Source: AP

GRANTS PASS, Ore. (AP) — A cave in Oregon's high desert where archaeologists have found the earliest DNA evidence of human habitation in North America has been added to the National Register of Historic Places.

The Paisley Five Mile Point Caves are part of a lava formation outside the community of Paisley in south-central Oregon.

University of Oregon archaeologist Dennis Jenkins led excavations that turned up fossilized human feces — known as coprolites — that were radiocarbon dated to 14,300 years ago.

That is 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.

Jenkins says the site has provided significant new information about the timing and spread of the first settlers in the Americas.

Read more: http://www.statesmanjournal.com/story/news/2014/10/03/cave-containing-earliest-human-dna-dubbed-historic/16663477/

[pkdu]

1. All of Scotland can be proud that some old geezer from Paisley had a shite in the woods long, long

ago .

/Sarc off

[3auld6phart]

4. pkdu

LOL like it. The posting of the find in Oregon is very interesting.We seem to have gone back further in time in NA by a couple thousand years.

[toby jo]

2. The Heinz History Center in Pittsburgh has a location called Meadowcroft.

It goes back to 16,000 years ago. Don't know if it is radiocarbon dated, but it is part of the Smithsonian. http://www.heinzhistorycenter.org/secondary.aspx?id=84

[hibbing]

3. fossized turd

Interesting, thanks for posting this.

Peace

[marym625]

5. Cool!

K&R

[marym625]

6. Maybe it wasn't human shit

But something that shit the human it ate
Kidding. Don't need to be told how that's scientifically wrong

[jwirr]

7. Must have used that landbridge much longer than we thought.

[Historic NY]

8. "Holy Shit"....

[littlemissmartypants]

9. DUzy. nt

[SoapBox]

10. I second that.

[Kaleva]

11. Some examples of human coprolites

[BlancheSplanchnik]

12. those seem more Giant Cave Bear sized......

[NutmegYankee]

13. Too big and plant filled for human.

That's from a large animal.

[davidpdx]

16. What is Karl Rove's brain

[CANDO]

20. If that's from humans, they blew out their sphincters.

Ouch! But I'm guessing they are dino-dung.

[Kaleva]

22. It's proof that Fred Flinstone was a big asshole.

[CANDO]

23. That right there is some funny S***!

[undiegrinder]

14. "Fossilized turd"??

Wasn't that Dick Cheney's Secret Service codename?

[Ichingcarpenter]

15. Good news...Also in Fla. Vero Beach Man site is being studied again

September 20, 2014|By Ken Kaye, Sun Sentinel
About 14,000 years ago, modern humans roamed to South Florida and lived side by side with mammoths, mastodons and saber-tooth tigers.

That, at least, is what Florida Atlantic University scientists hope to prove by analyzing ancient DNA found at an archaeological dig in Vero Beach.

If they can confirm the age of some very brittle bones, it will fill a major gap in human history, said Greg O'Corry-Crowe, an FAU associate research professor. "It would imply that humans were on this continent much longer than originally thought," he said.



Officially called the Old Vero Man site, the dig is considered one of the most important archaeological finds in North America. A large number of animal and human bones were discovered there, providing a rare glimpse of the Florida landscape at the end of the last Ice Age.

The site was originally discovered in 1915 when a farming company dredging a relief canal spotted part of a human skull and 44 other bones from up to five individuals, male and female.

http://articles.sun-sentinel.com/2014-09-20/news/fl-fau-ice-age-20140919_1_human-bones-ancient-dna-florida-atlantic-university

Mammoth engraving from Florida

Researchers from the Smithsonian Institution and the University of Florida have announced the discovery of a bone fragment, approximately 13 000 years old, at Vero, Florida with an incised image of a mammoth or mastodon. This engraving is the oldest known example of Ice Age art to depict a proboscidean (the order of animals with trunks) in the Americas. The bone was discovered in Vero Beach, Florida by James Kennedy, an avocational fossil hunter, who collected the bone and later while cleaning the bone, discovered the engraving. Recognising its potential importance, Kennedy contacted scientists at the University of Florida and the Smithsonian's Museum Conservation Institute and National Museum of Natural History.

Much more and other articles, news clippings etc. at link


http://donsmaps.com/vero.html

[Enthusiast]

18. That blows me away.

I hope they can manage to get some DNA.

[davidpdx]

17. Great story, would love to see those caves someday as have done some caving in the past.

THAT place is one of my least favorite places in the world though. Yucko!

[Enthusiast]

19. Thank you, Turborama.

Good stuff.

[Sunlei]

21. DNA studies are very cool!should core/date and study perma-ice from our glaciers before they're gone

There's all kinds of DNA locked in that ice.

[Crash2Parties]

24. AP doesn't know their sh*t

Why, the same exact thing happened six and a half years ago, in that very same cave! By the very same researchers!

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2008/04/080403-first-americans.html

[geologic]

25. "A cave in Oregon's high desert...

...has been added to the National Register of Historic Places."...

[Feral Child]

26. Fascinating shit.

I really like these kinds of articles. DU is my main news/current event sites.

Thanks for the post, Turborama!

[Jackpine Radical]

27. Wow, talk about constipation…

That's some hard shit.

[roamer65]

28. They found Dubya's brain!