14ka Human Feces Recovered from Oregon's Paisley Caves

[Charlie Hatchett]

"...Human DNA from dried 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..."

"...The DNA testing indicated that the feces belonged to Native Americans in haplogroups A2 and B2, haplogroups common in Siberia and east Asia..."

http://www.newswise.com/articles/view/539341/

http://www.mitomap.org/simple-tree-mitomap2008.pdf

Charlie

[E.P. Grondine]

Hi Charlie -

My guess is that that A2 (in other words A) is algonquin/sioux ancestors, coming over from the Pacific coastal strip.

Ed