14,000-Year-Old Poop Found in Oregon Cave Turns Out to Be Human Gizmodo reports that archaeologists John Blong and Lisa-Marie Shillito of Newcastle University and their colleagues tested 21 coprolites unearthed in Oregon’s Paisley Caves for the presence of human sterols and bile, which are not soluble in water and thus chemically stable. Previous mitochondrial DNA …

1,000-Year-Old Buffalo Jump Discovered in Wyoming For Curt Ogburn and Wade Golden, the journey to the excavation of the Ogburn-Golden Bison Jump near Baggs began almost 30 years ago, when the two high school students first found an old bison skull on state land. Wade and I were like brothers,” Ogburn said. We found all …

Eighteenth-Century Artifacts Uncovered in Michigan Excavators working at Mackinac State Historic Parks have uncovered a heart-shaped ring, a sleeve ʙuттon made of glᴀss or crystal, a gunflint, a plain pewter ʙuттon, a plain brᴀss ʙuттon, and part of a bone knife handle at the site of a house at Colonial Michilimackinac, a fort first established …

New Plant Identified in 1,400-Year-Old Pipe in Washington Rhus glabra, a herb commonly known as smooth sumac, was smoked by people in the Washington State more than 1.400 years ago. The finding was made by a team of researchers from the State University of Washington is the first time scientists in an archeological pipe have …

Scientists In Kansas Discover 91-Million Year Old Fossil Of A Shark That Had Cannibal Babies A newly discovered Cretodus Houghtonorum fossil shark aged 91 million years old in the Kansas region is part of the list of large dinosaur-era animals. Cretodus houghtonorum was a spectacular, almost 7 feet long shark, or slightly more than 5 …

Treasure worth over $1 million found in the Rocky Mountains after a 10-year search 10-year treasure search is over. Forrest Fenn, a former military pilot, art collector and author who claims to have hidden a treasure chest worth more than 1 million dollars somewhere in the Rocky Mountains in 2010 – attracting worldwide adventure-looking adventurers …

25 Million Old Moqui marbles naturally occurring iron oxide concretions that arise from Navajo sandstone Walkers wandering through the sandy canyons of Utah sometimes come across a strange sight. Where the Navajo Sandstone loses its iconic peach, orange, and red stripes, hundreds of round, iron-coated stones often litter the ground. Sandstone balls are cemented with …

A New Unified Model For Cave Pearls: Insights from Cave Pearls in Carlsbad Cavern, New Mexico, U.S.A. The Cave of Lechuguilla is the deepest of the Americas, but it is most notable because of its unique shapes, its peculiar geology, and its impermanence. Agave lechuguilla, a plant species found near his entrance, is called the …

An 18th-century ship under the world trade center new york In the midst of this tragic event and chaos, however, cleanups found something amazing in the attack on the World Trade Center (WTC), took place on 11 September 2001. Archaeologists found the remains of a big boat’s hull underneath the ruins of the Twin Towers in …