14,300 year old Human Poo Discovered in Oregon!!

[LTARGlok]

It is amazing what modern scientists are now able to do.   Who would believe that you could extra human DNA from 14,300 year old excrement?   This research would tend to confirm this south central area in Oregon as being the oldest confirmed location of human habitation in North America.   And that among other things, these humans ate horses, bison, squirrels, lizards, and fish.

See this story for details:

http://www.oregonlive.com/news/oregonian/index.ssf?/base/news/1207284906233450.xml&coll=7&thispage=1

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[EskimoJoe]

 

[SOB]

I woulda been willing to take a dump into a specimen jar had they just asked.

[LTARGlok]

This discovery is about 2,000 years older than that of the Clovis people, who were discovered back in the late '30's, and previously thought to be the oldest people found living in North America.

This may thus well turn out to be the most significant archaeological discovery in North America in the last 70 years!!

Additional note:

The Bison and Horses that they ate were ancient species that now no longer exist.   It is believed that ancient man may have hunted them into extinction.

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[Curval]

Why Oregon?

I mean, surely there is a whole bunch of poo out there...all over the world.  Cavemen through to the birth of Mr. Crapper's invention, the modern toilet.  

People would ineviatbly wander off and relieve themselves....everywhere.

Why is Oregon the home of ancient poo?

 

I'll bet it was a relative of SOB who curled one out in a specialy dug hole or something.  Just so he could admire it for a while and then preserve it...almost like a monument.

[GtoRA2]

yeah, he posts here, his name is sig220 or something!

[LTARGlok]

Why Oregon?

I believe that almost everything NORTH of Oregon would have been covered in Glaciers back then.

After coming across the land bridge from Asia to Alaska along the coast, Oregon may have perhaps been the first temperate climate that humans came across and could thus settle in.   This is roughly the time when the Pleistocene Glaciers started to recede. 

At least that seems like one reasonable theory.  But nothing is yet proven for sure.   


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[Ripsnort]

See Rules #4, #5

[MiloMorai]

Solid Line: Approximate extent of glaciation during last (Wisconsin) ice age.
Dotted Line: Approximate extent of earlier glaciations. Source: www.iceagenow.com

[SOB]

Dude, you beat me to this line. Dammit.  Okay, so I will say that the crappy attitude that MiniD has, that's why crap is king in Oregon.

Eh, feels forced, I'll give it a 3, though the East German judge is looking under the table for the -1 card.

The abundance of turds in Pierce County as evidenced on COPS just goes to show that the poo doesn't start at the Columbia.

[Ripsnort]

Eh, feels forced, I'll give it a 3, though the East German judge is looking under the table for the -1 card.

The abundance of turds in Pierce County as evidenced on COPS just goes to show that the poo doesn't start at the Columbia.

I won't argue with you on Pierce county. I live on the border of the "Meth Triangle", thus my willingness to carry and conceal. 

I *can* throw a rock and hit King county though, that's how close we live to the county line.

[Holden McGroin]

Why Oregon?

It's not that ours is necessarily older, it's just that it don't stink.

[texasmom]

After coming across the land bridge from Asia to Alaska along the coast, Oregon may have perhaps been the first temperate climate that humans came across and could thus settle in.   

I, for one, don't think that the land bridge ever existed. I'll save that for another thread though.

[Gunthr]

I've got some fairly recent coprolites in my toilet right now... these will serve to indicate that modern man fed on smoked chubs, pretzels and Foster's Lager, really not too different from ancient humans. 

[ROX]

Do these specimins belong in Steve Martin's famous "Crap Museum"?


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