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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Gilbert, M. Thomas P
• Jenkins, Dennis L
• Götherstrom, Anders
• Naveran, Nuria
• Sanchez, Juan J
• Hofreiter, Michael
• Thomsen, Philip Francis
• Binladen, Jonas
• Higham, Thomas F.G
• Yohe, Robert M. II
• Parr, Robert
• Cummings, Linda Scott
• Willerslev, Eske

Titel

DNA from Pre-Clovis Human Coprolites in Oregon, North America

Ist Teil von

• Science (American Association for the Advancement of Science), 2008-05, Vol.320 (5877), p.786-789

Ort / Verlag

Washington, DC: American Association for the Advancement of Science

Erscheinungsjahr

2008

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Quelle

American Association for the Advancement of Science

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• The timing of the first human migration into the Americas and its relation to the appearance of the Clovis technological complex in North America at about 11,000 to 10,800 radiocarbon years before the present (¹⁴C years B.P.) remains contentious. We establish that humans were present at Paisley 5 Mile Point Caves, in south-central Oregon, by 12,300 ¹⁴C years B.P., through the recovery of human mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) from coprolites, directly dated by accelerator mass spectrometry. The mtDNA corresponds to Native American founding haplogroups A2 and B2. The dates of the coprolites are >1000 ¹⁴C years earlier than currently accepted dates for the Clovis complex.