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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This sounds like a pretty rare find. I wonder why they didn’t try to remove the original fossils...maybe the ‘laminated silts’ were not solid enough.
This is impossible. The Earth is only 6000 years old...
This is impossible. The Earth is only 6000 years old...
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So funny! Like the sarcasm!
With this find and things recently found in Asia and the Caucuses, I begin to dought the theory that everything started in Africa. I question that modern man came out of Africa. I think there were people developing elsewhere, but that good climatic and other conditions erased the proof.
Coastal and inland waterways. Bays and brackish waters. Abundant food, grasslands to hide in, easy navigational references.
I have long questioned the “out of Africa” idea. For example, which people have slanted eyes? And why would people develope slanted eyes?
Hmmm, you’ve won this round primatreat...
> This is impossible. The Earth is only 6000 years old...
Just the last phase. I believe it has been replinished many times over. It sort of alludes to that in Genesis. Men wrote as they wetre directed from their limited perspective in the Bible. Earth could be a testing ground for experimentation with different variations of species as far as we know.
My understanding is, not an African start to things, but rather competition between neanderthals in the colder climes in Europe versus cro magmon in Africa. When the climes warmed, it favored the cro magmons infiltrating into neanderthal territory, eventually wiping them out.
Going to be hard to confirm this “find” when the tide washed away the supposedly almost a million year old foot prints.
That alone was just one the fatal red flags that should have clued in the God-haters it was another fraud. Such as the direct conflict with the alleged dating of mitochondrial Eve, Adam, the pictures of the prints that look like sneakers, etc.
The hatred of God and the Bible makes some so gullible they will believe anything it seems.
What a tragedy for the British Isles. A classic example of reverse evolution of the current population.
The entire theory of evolution is based on six skulls,in fact we know more about Dinosaurs than about Homo-sapiens.
Do literal bible thumpers know that these threads have an “AVOID” warning only visible to non believers? The forum colors them magenta.
“The entire theory of evolution is based on six skulls”
No.
So wrong.
Popping a fresh bag of popcorn.....
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