Archaeologist JD Lancaster’s dream is to someday find evidence of the earliest people in the western half of the Great Basin.
This evidence will likely be human feces that is thousands of years old.
He suspects this waste, called coprolites, will be found deep inside a cave, and it will be a messy business.
“It’s so dry inside of these caves that these piles of poop have preserved for quite a long time,” Lancaster said.…