Archaeologists Excited Over Find in Oregon Cave. Pooch Dog Calls It Pure CRAP!

The most interesting "artifact" of the year award is a piece of crap. Literally. When a pile of poop discovered in an Oregon cave in 2002 was retested this year thanks to new techniques in DNA extraction, excited researchers determined that the ancient feces — officially called coprolites in polite archaeological terms — were human and were more than 14,000 years old, marking the earliest evidence of human presence in North America by almost two thousand years. Other bits and pieces of cultural material have turned up in the Americas and called the date into question, but the coprolites are the oldest of definite human ... extraction.    Read more...

This picture of coprolite is not the actual pile of crap discovered in Oregon cave.  It is just a random picture of fossilized crap found on the Internet.   Pooch Doggy Dog

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