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c. 12,300 BC · Paisley Caves, Oregon, USA · Americas · Science

Early Americans given away by fossilised droppings

The Paisley Caves
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In caves in southern Oregon, excavators in the 2000s found coprolites, fossilised human faeces, with DNA dated to about 14,300 years ago. They are among the oldest securely dated traces of people in North America, more than a thousand years older than Clovis.