DNA from pre-Clovis human coprolites in Oregon, North America

Science

Volumn 320, Issue 5877, 2008, Pages 786-789

  Gilbert, M Thomas P ^a   Jenkins, Dennis L ^b   Götherstrom, Anders ^c   Naveran, Nuria ^d   Sanchez, Juan J ^e   Hofreiter, Michael ^f   Thomsen, Philip Francis ^a   Binladen, Jonas ^a   Higham, Thomas F G ^g   Yohe II, Robert M ^h   Parr, Robert ^h   Cummings, Linda Scott ⁱ   Willerslev, Eske ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OREGON   (United States)

^c UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SANTIAGO DE COMPOSTELA   (Spain)

^e Biology Section Apdo 863 E 41080   (Spain)

^f MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR EVOLUTIONARY ANTHROPOLOGY   (Germany)

^g UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^h CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

ⁱ Palaeo Research Institute   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

CARBON ISOTOPE; COPROLITE; DNA; HUMAN SETTLEMENT; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; RADIOCARBON DATING;

ARCHEOLOGY; ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; DNA DETERMINATION; GENE DELETION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; HUMAN; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MIGRATION; NORTH AMERICA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; ANIMAL; CANIDAE; FECES; FOSSIL; GENETICS; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SCIURIDAE; SIGMODONTINAE; TIME; UNITED STATES;

NORTH AMERICA; OREGON; PAISLEY CAVES; UNITED STATES;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CANIDAE; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; EMIGRATION AND IMMIGRATION; FECES; FOSSILS; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NORTH AMERICA; OREGON; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; SCIURIDAE; SIGMODONTINAE; TIME;

EID: 44049093102     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: 10959203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1154116     Document Type: Article

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21. We thank T. B. Brand, B. Kemp, T. J. Connolly, and L. Davis for assistance and comments. The Lakeview and Vale District offices of the Bureau of Land Management provided funding for the field work through the direction of W. J. Cannon (Lakeview) and D. Pritchard (Vale); G. Skelton and P. Chocktoot of the Klamath Tribes assisted in the coordination of the Paisley Caves archaeological project. Financial support for the project was provided by the Museum of Natural and Cultural History, University of Oregon, and the Association of Oregon Archaeologists (D.J.), and the Marie Curie Actions 025002 FORMAPLEX (M.T.P.G.) and MEST-CT-2004-007909 GENETIME (E.W. and N.N.) grants. GenBank accession numbers are as follows: EU579350 for the N. lepida 16S mtDNA and EU579351 for the S. lateralis 16S mtDNA.