Scientists find 800,000-year-old footprints in UK

San Francisco Chronicle ^ | February 7, 2014 | JILL LAWLESS

[artichokegrower]

LONDON (AP) — They were a British family on a day out — almost a million years ago.

Archaeologists announced Friday that they have discovered human footprints in England that are between 800,000 and 1 million years old — the most ancient found outside Africa, and the earliest evidence of human life in northern Europe.

[Vermont Lt]

Wandering around looking for a dentist, no doubt.

[SgtHooper]

Oh now that’s as clear as mud.

[GreenHornet]

BFRO Team: “That’s a squatch!”

[GrandJediMasterYoda]

Here's the area in a larger photo...

Note that they are saying it's a MILLION years old, so in other words in a million years these prints have been completely devoid of erosion....on a beach...around sand and wind...and a boardwalk...in England, which has ice and snow....

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2014/02/140207-ancient-human-footprints-outside-africa-england-anthropology-science/

This qualifies for the Al Gore award of hoax of the month.

[editor-surveyor]

I’m sure that they took special care not to disturb this important resource as they built that wharf too!
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[Ethan Clive Osgoode]

Piltdown man was here.

[Cementjungle]

What gets me is where are they seeing these human footprints? The only thing that slightly resembles a footprint is the one to the right of the Canon lens cap, but that could be anything. A freakin' rock could have made that.

That's what I was thinking. Where are any indentations for the toes or heel, or were they wearing bedroom slippers?

[editor-surveyor]

It’s at the wharf, they were wearing their Sperry Topsiders.

[Cementjungle]

Makes perfect sense.

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks artichokegrower. Earlier on FR:

• Scientists Find 800,000-Year-Old Footprints In UK