[Aztlan] Paisley Cave Pre-Clovis questioned

[michael ruggeri]

Listeros,

Archaeologist Dennis Jenkins and his team found coprolites at Paisley  
Cave in Oregon in 2008. He and his team dated said these were human  
coprolites and dated them to the time period of the human traces found  
at Monte Verde, Chile, around 14,300 years old. This would be the 2nd  
place where proven Pre-Clovis human material would be found.

Here is the Science Daily article on the find;
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/04/080403141109.htm

A team of reseachers cross checking the data has concluded that the  
coprolites belong to herbivores and not to humans thus disproving the  
claim. Dennis Jenkins and his team have given a rebuttal and state the  
scientific reasons why they feel the coprolites are human.

Both studies are published in "Science" here;
http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/325/5937/148-c

and the rebuttal;
http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/325/5937/148-b

Any claim about Pre-Clovis remains are subjected to rigorous outside  
testing and the proof one way or the other can take decades as the  
finds at Monte Verde took that long.

Jenkins is now stating that only further sterile excavations at  
Paisley Cave will produce enough evidence to justify the Pre-Clovis  
claim.

Mike Ruggeri

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