[or-roots] Old Native Oregonian DNA

[Chris & Bill Strickland]

Sorta genealogical, rather pre-historic, certainly Oregonian -- courtesy 
of my sister, and a Paisley raised cousin --

Paisley is now world renowned!  As it turns out, how the world thinks 
about when, who and how the continent of North America was settled may 
be decided by a pile of [remains] found in the Five Mile caves near 
Paisley.  This is pretty interesting [stuff]!  Copy and paste the link 
below for the best discussion about it that I could find.  (Thanks, 
Cousin Jinny, for bringing it to our attention.)  It's a little 
disappointing that this is what "puts Paisley on the map" but ... 

Jerry
 
http://www.archaeology.org/online/features/coprolites/ 
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What it says is that humans were in the Americas about 14,300 years ago, 
"almost 1,500 years before the earliest agreed-upon evidence for human 
presence in the Americas. 'For the first time, we are actually 
radio-carbon dating human remains that are pre-Clovis," Jenkins says. 
"There are older radiocarbon dates on sites in North America, but not 
directly on human remains.' "

More from Googling Paisley caves coprolite -- 
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=Paisley+caves+coprolite , esp the 
www.uoregon.edu<> link -- Go Beavers!

Bill Strickland

     

 

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