Who'd a thunk it? More evidence that humans have been crapping up North America for longer than we though.
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Originally Posted by JOE ROJAS-BURKE
Near the marshy edge of an ancient lake in south-central Oregon, wandering Stone Age hunters took shelter in a shallow cave at the foot of a basalt ridge.
They camped only briefly, leaving little evidence of their stay: a flaked-stone spear or arrow point, a few shards suggesting tool-making or sharpening, a grinding stone and -- most important for researchers -- several piles of excrement preserved in the dry cave floor.
From these unintended time capsules, scientists say they've extracted DNA that is unquestionably human. And carbon dating suggests that people first occupied the caves 14,300 years ago -- more than a thousand years before the rise of the Clovis hunters, long presumed to be the first Americans. ...
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Oregon site may hold signs of 1st Americans - OregonLive.com
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