The 14,200-Year-Old Human DNA Found In Ancient Feces — And The Oregon Cave Discovery That Challenged Clovis
When the people who left the coprolites at Paisley Caves 14,200 years ago made their camp above Lake Chewaucan, they were not thinking about the peopling of the Americas.
They were not trying to answer a question that had not yet been asked in any form they would have recognized.
They were doing what people do: finding shelter, processing food, managing their biological needs, and living the specific daily life of their specific time and place.
The coprolites they left behind were not intended as a message to the future.
They were a biological trace of ordinary life, no more remarkable to the people who produced them than the waste of any other day’s existence.
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