His team found
ancient human faeces — coprolites — that proved to be 14,300 years old.
Its discovery cast more doubt on the idea that the Clovis people were the first Americans, because stone tools found near
the ancient human faeces were quite different from Clovis points.
Not exact matches
Dr Piers Mitchell brought together evidence of parasites in
ancient latrines,
human burials and «coprolites» — or fossilised
faeces — as well as in combs and textiles from numerous Roman Period excavations across the Roman Empire.