As I blogged yesterday, archaeologists now have convincing proof that American Indians were here in the “New World” at least 1,000 years before spear points were discovered at Clovis, N.M., thus settling the argument on one of the hottest issues in archaeology and anthropology in the last decade or so
The key to, and possibly the most fascinating part of, this discovery, is stuff like
That’s a coprolite, a fossilized bit of excrement, though I don’t know if this particular one is human or not.
The fascinating part is that researchers were able to get enough DNA out of a fossilized turd nearly 15,000 years ago to do radiocarbon dating on it.
It is these things that certainly make science fascinating for a professional like P.Z. Myers, aka Pharyngula. I am certainly not a professional, but definitely a science-interested and science-informed layperson.
Beyond that, consider this my opener to Friday crapblogging, for those of you tired of bloggers foisting pictures of cats upon you every week.
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April 04, 2008
Friday Crapblogging – no shit, Indians were here before Clovis
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American Indians,
coprolites,
scatblogging,
science
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