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Human Hair and Dyed Fiber Artifacts
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Day's Knob Site
(33GU218) |
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Two hairs twisted
together and bound with artificially colored plant fibers.
(Pretty good visual acuity and manual dexterity by today's
standards.)
(The human hairs
and artificially dyed fibers
were confirmed by Dr. Scott Moody, professor
of forensic biology at Ohio University.)
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| Above: One of the hairs at 100X
magnification, showing the characteristically club-shaped human
hair root. |
| The hair at 400X, showing the
characteristic human (imbricate) scale pattern. |
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The other hair in the
artifact at 1000X,
also showing the
human scale pattern.
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| Unfortunately, in the hairs from this site
that have been tested so far, no
mitochondrial DNA has survived . |
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The bear-like
sandstone figure on which the hair/fiber artifact appeared
embedded in the clay adhering to the rock. Light blue and white fibers remain in the
clay.
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