Clovis Age Western Stemmed Projectile Points and Human Coprolites at the Paisley Caves

@article{Jenkins2012ClovisAW,
  title={Clovis Age Western Stemmed Projectile Points and Human Coprolites at the Paisley Caves},
  author={Dennis L. Jenkins and Loren G. Davis and Thomas W. Stafford and Paula F. Campos and Bryan Hockett and George T. Jones and Linda Scott Cummings and Chad Yost and Thomas J. Connolly and Robert M. Ii Yohe and Summer C Gibbons and Maanasa Raghavan and Morten Rasmussen and Johanna L. A. Paijmans and Michael Hofreiter and Brian M. Kemp and Jodi Lynn Barta and Cara Monroe and M. Thomas P. Gilbert and Eske Willerslev},
  journal={Science},
  year={2012},
  volume={337},
  pages={223 - 228}
}
They Walked Together Paisley Cave in Oregon provides some of the earliest evidence for humans in North America. Jenkins et al. (p. 223) provide a wide variety of additional evidence of early human occupation of this site, including a series of radiocarbon ages extending back to nearly 12,500 radiocarbon years ago (about 14,500 calendar years ago). The find includes examples of projectile points representative of the Western Stemmed Tradition dating to about 11,100 radiocarbon years ago. The… Expand
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