Ancient Seaweed Tells of Earliest Americans

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5-8-2008 6:12 PM

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/7a2c53b9-a78d-4fe9-a4ca-9aff68b12061/320425C2-7E38-4F41-9377-D5883AAA29CD/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2008/05/08/seaweed-monte-verde.html" href="http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2008/05/08/seaweed-monte-verde.html" style="font-size: 11px;">dsc.discovery.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2008/05/08/seaweed-monte-verde.html"><P><STRONG>May 8, 2008</STRONG> -- Remains of meals that included seaweed are helping confirm the date of a settlement in southern Chile that may offer the earliest evidence of humans in the Americas. </P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2008/05/08/seaweed-monte-verde.html"><P>Researchers date the seaweed found at Monte Verde to more than 14,000 years ago, 1,000 years earlier than the well-studied <A target="_blank" href="http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2007/06/05/arrowheads_arc.html">Clovis culture</A>.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2008/05/08/seaweed-monte-verde.html"><P>And the report comes just a month after other scientists announced they had found coprolites â€“ <A target="_blank" href="http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2008/04/03/earliest-americans-feces.html">fossilized human feces</A> -- dating to about 14,000 years ago in a cave in Oregon.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2008/05/08/seaweed-monte-verde.html"><P>Taken together, the finds move back evidence of people in the Americas by a millennium or more, with settlements in northern and southern coastal areas.</P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/320425C2-7E38-4F41-9377-D5883AAA29CD/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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5-8-2008 6:18 PM

syncopath

Christopher Columbus, as everyone knows, is honored by posterity because he was the last to discover America.
James Joyce

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5-9-2008 2:52 PM

carrerinyes

5-10-2008 8:37 AM

michellezm

What a business - messing around with other people's dwang. We all know it's the biggest ones that float to the top, but what I didn't know is that the humble human turd could outlive us all. But it's all in the interests of science, right!