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<DIV>Bob - </DIV>
<DIV>It sounds like you're referring to the Painted Hills Unit of the John Day
Fossil Beds National Monument. It's part of the National Park Service &
can be found at: <A href="http://www.nps.gov/joda/">www.nps.gov/joda/</A>
. I just did a search for "Painted Hills" +John Day, Oregon and
found much information and wonderful photos of this interesting area.
Yes, Central Oregon is great for geologists, and this dry desert area preserved
many artifacts.</DIV>
<DIV>Gerrie</DIV>
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<DIV>In a message dated 11/29/2008 12:23:11 P.M. Mountain Standard Time,
dgoodma02@comcast.net writes:</DIV>
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<DIV>Diane__ Thanks for the info:</DIV>
<DIV>I did my B.S. in Professional Geology at Oregon State University (
graduated Class of '51). My Major Prof was a great guy named "Doc"
Wilkenson. We did Field work near John Day and camped right on a branch
of the John Day River. We actually found Coprolites in the Painted
Valley along the John Day river. Interestingly enough I ended up as a
Meteorologist with a Masters degree from MIT and a nearly completed
disertation at the University of Utah.</DIV>
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<DIV class=signature id=signature>--<BR>Bob Goodman <BR>USAF Retired
<BR>Tacoma, WA</DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#000080 size=4>If this quote from the web site
(<A class=moz-txt-link-freetext
title=http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=Paisley+caves+coprolite
href="http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=Paisley+caves+coprolite"><FONT
size=2><A
title=http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=Paisley+caves+coprolite)
href="http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=Paisley+caves+coprolite) ">http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=Paisley+caves+coprolite</FONT></A>) </A> is
a sample of the findings of the rest of the scientific study, then the whole
study is a pile of hooey. "<EM>The site, Paisley 5 Mile Point Cave, is
located in a perfect spot to support the Pre-Clovis Pacific coast migration
theory of American colonization: in the hinterlands of what is Oregon today,
<U>upriver from the Pacific coast along the Klamath
River.</U></EM><U>" </U></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#000080 size=4>The site is not upriver from the
Pacific coast along the Klamath River. The caves are not anywhere
near the Klamath River. </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#000080 size=4>The caves lie within the western
edge of the Great Basin. The Klamath River is many miles to the
west. The closest waterway is the Chewaucan River. And, many
locals wonder if the findings are exactly that old.....the caves have been a
fascination for locals over the generations, and many a local relieved
themselves in the caves. </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#000080 size=4>The climate here is severe.
Tradition relates that the earlier residents migrated around the area,
foraging for substance. No permanent settlements.
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#000080 size=4>I can see the caves, in the
distance, from my kitchen window. </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#000080 size=4>Diane</FONT></DIV>
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<A title=mailto:lechevrier@earthlink.net
href="mailto:lechevrier@earthlink.net">Chris & Bill Strickland</A>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Saturday, November 29, 2008
8:35 AM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> [or-roots] Old Native
Oregonian DNA</DIV>
<DIV><BR></DIV>Sorta genealogical, rather pre-historic, certainly
Oregonian -- courtesy of my sister, and a Paisley raised cousin --<BR><BR>
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<P>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 ...
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial>Jerry </FONT></DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><A
title=http://www.archaeology.org/online/features/coprolites/
href="http://www.archaeology.org/online/features/coprolites/">http://www.archaeology.org/online/features/coprolites/</A> </FONT></DIV>
<><BR><FONT face=Arial size=2>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.' " <BR><BR>More from
Googling Paisley caves coprolite -- <A class=moz-txt-link-freetext
title=http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=Paisley+caves+coprolite
href="http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=Paisley+caves+coprolite">http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=Paisley+caves+coprolite</A>
, esp the </FONT><CITE><A class=moz-txt-link-abbreviated
title=http://www.uoregon.edu/
href="http://www.uoregon.edu/">www.uoregon.edu</A></CITE><><FONT
face=Arial size=2> link -- Go Beavers!<BR><BR>Bill Strickland<BR></FONT>
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