Researchers find pre-Clovis human DNA

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Dennis L. Jenkins a University of Oregon archaeologist led two summers of work that uncovered human DNA dating to 14300 years ago. Credit: Photo by Jim Barlow
Dennis L. Jenkins, a University of Oregon archaeologist, led two summers of work that uncovered human DNA dating to 14,300 years ago. Credit: Photo by Jim Barlow

DNA from dried human excrement recovered from Oregon's Paisley Caves is the oldest found yet in the New World -- dating to 14,300 years ago, some 1,200 years before Clovis culture -- and provides apparent genetic ties to Siberia or Asia, according to an international team of 13 scientists.


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