Thanks Red Badger.
Posted on 09/01/2017 1:41:22 PM PDT by Red Badger
But there they are!
Maybe minotaurs can swim, and they hitched a ride.
Who knew?
I don’t think flip-flops are gonna work well on this foot.
On second thought, I have seen similar feet wearing flip-flops at Walmart. Do you know there are no safe spaces at Walmart?
That's where we got crete-ures from.
Not true. They carry a smaller percentage on average, one half to one percent but it is there.
Excellent!...............A++++!..................
Who is Randall Garrett?......................
Wrote a bunch of good stuff although he had a reputation for being a very unpleasant person.
Anyway he wrote The Gandalara Cycle which has much to do with this article. If you can find all seven books read it.
If you turn it 180 degrees, it looks like a sneaker print.
Fossil footprints of early human ancestor stolen from archaeological site in Kasteli, Crete
http://www.tornosnews.gr/en/greek-news/society/27177-fossil-footprints-of-early-human-ancestor-stolen-from-archaeological-site-in-kasteli-crete.html
(Update) Greek police arrest 55-year-old man over theft of 5.7 million-year-old footprints in Crete
http://www.tornosnews.gr/en/greek-news/culture/27213-update-greek-police-arrest-55-year-old-man-over-theft-of-5-7-million-year-old-footprints-in-crete.html
Thanks Red Badger.
shoes, and of course odor-eaters, were made of perishable materials, and probably won’t be found in the fossil record. :^)
...about 5.6m years ago, an extraordinary thing happened: the entire Mediterranean sea dried out for some time. This event left a clear signature in the sediments of the surrounding areas. The sediments that contain the footprints suggest they probably date to the period immediately before this, at about 5.7m years.IOW, this guy got there by boat? :^)
The Earth is Expanding and we don’t know why:
http://www.science-frontiers.com/sf037/sf037p11.htm
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oJfBSc6e7QQ
But there they are!
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And, therefore, the controversy! In academia, if it ain’t wrote down in an approved school text book and backed by a respected leader of a cult of personality in that field, then it can not possibly be true.
The seeming differences from modern human footies could be explained by:
1. No podiatrists back then. Injuries had to heal all on their own.
2. Pushing off on an oblique angle that drove the base of the big toe knuckle and associated toe more deeply into the mud and smeared the print a bit.
The Med has completely dried out (at least) 40 times, the last time was five million years ago. These guys may have walked there.
There is a 2 mile thick salt layer on the bottom of the Med with the sort of salt crystals that forms only when exposed to direct sunlight.
These guys were a few hundred thousand years too early, hence my boat suggestion — but I remembered your interest in the Messinian Salinity Crisis.
Mediterranean Sea filled in less than two years: study [Zanclean flood]
December 9, 2009
https://phys.org/news/2009-12-mediterranean-sea-years.html
""The Atlantic waters found a way through the present Gibraltar Strait and rapidly refilled the Mediterranean 5.33 million years ago in an event known as the Zanclean flood," it said.
I've always suspected similar to this happened during the last Ice Age.
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