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800,000-year-old human footprints found in Norfolk
Past Horizons ^ | Feb 7, 2014 | Maev Kennedy

Posted on 02/09/2014 2:06:18 AM PST by Islander7

The oldest human footprints ever found outside Africa, dated at between 850,000 and 950,000 years old, have been discovered on the storm-lashed beach at Happisburgh in Norfolk, one of the fastest eroding stretches of the British coast. Within a fortnight the sea tides that exposed the prints last May destroyed them, leaving only casts and 3D images made through photogrammetry – by stitching together hundreds of photographs – as evidence that a little group from a long-extinct early human species had passed that way.

They walked through a startlingly different landscape from today’s, along the estuary of what may have been the original course of the Thames, through a river valley grazed by mammoths, hippos and rhinoceros. The pattern of the prints suggests at least five individuals heading southward, pausing and pottering about to gather plants or shellfish along the bank. They included several children. The best preserved prints, clearly showing heel, arch and four toes – one may not have left a clear impression – is of a man with a foot equivalent to a modern size 8 shoe, suggesting an individual about 5ft 7ins (1.7 metres ) tall.

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TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Education; History; Science
KEYWORDS: archeology; brittan; fossils; godsgravesglyphs; happisburgh; norfolk
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To: managusta

Yeah.

Ken Ham says they were around the same time as ancient man.

He must be a Flintstones fan.


21 posted on 02/09/2014 7:55:05 AM PST by Catmom (We're all gonna get the punishment only some of us deserve.)
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To: Islander7
 photo Happisburgh_zps3b0af4ce.jpg It shows one thing, they were intelligent enough to walk around the deeper water.
22 posted on 02/09/2014 8:04:17 AM PST by RetSignman
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To: NativeSon

> I have long questioned the “out of Africa” idea. For example, which people have slanted eyes? And why would people develope slanted eyes?

Alien intervention / cross-breeding. Why else do you think they have 4 year olds that can play complete symphonies better than a 40 year music and can outperform just about every other race in the math and science. Their ancestors probbly flew spacecraft here hundreds of thousands of years ago.../s


23 posted on 02/09/2014 12:59:16 PM PST by jsanders2001
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To: Islander7; StayAt HomeMother; Ernest_at_the_Beach; decimon; 1010RD; 21twelve; 24Karet; ...
Note: this topic was posted 2/9/2014. Thanks Islander7.


24 posted on 09/18/2014 8:20:59 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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To: jsanders2001

An’ da white man stole all of it! Yo!


25 posted on 09/18/2014 8:59:55 PM PDT by uglybiker (nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-BATMAN!)
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To: C210N
"When the climes warmed, it favored the cro magmons infiltrating into neanderthal territory, eventually wiping them out."

(Ahem) We are Neanderthals.

26 posted on 09/18/2014 9:32:10 PM PDT by blam (Jeff Sessions For President)
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To: maxwellsmart_agent

“I question that modern man came out of Africa.”

That’s racist.

Next you’ll be claiming that the pyramids were not built by a race of black people with wings who could fly.


27 posted on 09/18/2014 11:20:13 PM PDT by dsc (Any attempt to move a government to the left is a crime against humanity.)
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