<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div><div style="line-height: normal;"><div style="line-height: normal;">On Apr 28, 2017, at 12:54 PM, J.R. Jones <<a href="mailto:mrjones2020@gmail.com">mrjones2020@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div></div></div><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Fri, Apr 28, 2017 at 12:29 PM Dan TheBookMan <<a href="mailto:danust2012@gmail.com">danust2012@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto"><div><a href="https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/04/170426143033.htm" target="_blank">https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/04/170426143033.htm</a></div><div><br></div><div>After reading _Strangers in a New Land: The First Americans_, I was willing to give credence to modern humans in the Americas around 30,000 years ago... that book does go over controversial funds like <h1 id="m_8357639786069986841section_0" style="margin:0px;padding:0px 16px 0px 0px;border:0px;font-weight:inherit;line-height:1.3;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:none;word-wrap:break-word;word-break:break-word"><font size="3"><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">Pendejo Cave and Old Crow.</span></font></h1></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Will they be able to test the DNA of a sample this old? </div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div>I don't believe current techniques can recover DNA under those conditions. There are old samples they've been recovered, but they were frozen. Remember, too, the finding is of mastodon bones. Maybe humans working them left some of their DNA behind, but that's a long shot. (Coprolites might be a better bet.)<div><br></div><div><div style="line-height: normal;"><div style="line-height: normal;"><span style="line-height: 20px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Regards,</span></div><div style="line-height: normal;"><span style="line-height: 20px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><div style="line-height: normal;"><span style="line-height: 20px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Dan</span></div><div style="line-height: normal;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> Sample my Kindle books via:</span></div><div style="line-height: normal;"><font color="#000000" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><a href="http://author.to/DanUst" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">http://author.to/DanUst</a></font></div></div></div><div><br></div></div></body></html>