Pre-Clovis Human Waste Found

Jul 17, 2020

Ancient poop dating back about 14,000 years found in an Oregon cave is of human origins, Gizmodo reports. It adds that an initial genetic analysis suggested the coprolites were from people, a finding now bolstered by lipid biomarker analysis.

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