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JAMA. 1970;212(4):618.

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The discovery of primitive paintings—the early impulse of prehistoric man toward artistic creation— on the walls of the cave of Altamira captured the imagination of modern man. No such response is likely to be provoked by a more recent discovery in the Hogup and Danger caves of western Utah. "Among the cultural [sic] findings of the cave floor sediment," report Frey and Moore,¹ "were samples of dried feces judged to be of human origin on the basis of form, color and content analysis." But to the physician, this discovery is of considerable importance. Reconstituted specimens of stool in sodium phosphate disclosed the presence of phylum Acanthocephala (thorny-headed worm) from a sample dated at 9500 BC and Enterobius vermicularis (pinworm) from a sample dated at 7837 BC. The rich yield of information regarding dietary habits and parasite infestation in neolithic North American man bears witness to the relevance of anthropology . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

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