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Date Added: April 20, 2008 10:10:03 PM

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. Exactly who these people living in the Oregon caves were is not known. ...

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