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Oldest Human Footprint in Americas May Be This 15,600-Year-Old Mark in Chile
Live Science ^ | May 1, 2019 | Laura Geggel

Posted on 05/04/2019 9:20:01 AM PDT by rdl6989

The earliest human footprint on record in the Americas wasn't found in Canada, the United States or even Mexico; it was found much farther south, in Chile, and it dates to an astonishing 15,600 years ago, a new study finds.

The finding sheds light on when humans first reached the Americas, likely by traveling across the Bering Strait land bridge in the midst of the last ice age.

This 10.2-inch-long (26 centimeters) print might even be evidence of pre-Clovis people in South America, the group that came before the Clovis, which are known for their distinctive spearheads, the researchers said.

(Excerpt) Read more at livescience.com ...


TOPICS: History
KEYWORDS: ancientnavigation; chile; clovis; godsgravesglyphs; laurageggel; navigation; preclovis; troll49
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To: campaignPete R-CT

“Geese” — good point. You see them and other birds arriving from the south every year and wonder “Where are they coming from? What’s there?”


21 posted on 05/04/2019 10:11:28 AM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom
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To: ProtectOurFreedom
Look at any old map and you will see settlements dotting the rivers.

Think of the Nile, Amazon, Misissippi, Ohio, Great Lake tributaries.

The hill are for safety. The water is necessity.

22 posted on 05/04/2019 10:11:39 AM PDT by Sacajaweau
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To: Robert A Cook PE
So, how many sabertooth cats, short-faced bears, and dire wolves did the firearm-equipped Lewis & Clark have to contend with during their trip across a territory they were merely taking notes instead of having to just survive?

23 posted on 05/04/2019 10:14:47 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

Imo, they were most probably coast hopping.

Moving by sea and landing when they needed to and establishing camps. Some camps became permanent. All of those would be under a lot of water now.


24 posted on 05/04/2019 10:20:37 AM PDT by Grimmy (equivocation is but the first step along the road to capitulation)
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To: rdl6989

Did they take some kind of boat/canoe down the coast?


That is the theory that is shaking up the old view of traveling by foot. There appears to be very old evidence of human presence from southern South America. Even today, with modern gear, traveling by foot from Panama into South America is not an easy feat. Large numbers with women and children might well be next to impossible.


25 posted on 05/04/2019 10:20:38 AM PDT by hanamizu
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

Actually it’s part of the story of Noah and the ark which got left out of Genesis. The Bible makes it sound like the only people on board the ark were Noah and his family. But Noah had had to get the help of a lawyer to get the building permits, so he let the lawyer and his family on board, but then the lawyer killed and BBQ’d the last unicorn. When Noah found out, the lawyer taunted him, “What are you going to do—sue me?” Instead Noah put the lawyer and his family on a lifeboat which came to ground in Chile.


26 posted on 05/04/2019 10:20:46 AM PDT by Verginius Rufus
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To: ivory49
"I believe in God’s science. This world has been around 6 thousand yrs. Maybe a Little bit more."

James Usser invented this 'new earth' nonsense back in the 1600's. Why do you keep trying to pollute my religion with this CRAP!

"James Ussher (or Usher; 4 January 1581 – 21 March 1656) was the Church of Ireland Archbishop of Armagh and Primate of All Ireland between 1625 and 1656. He was a prolific scholar and church leader, who today is most famous for his identification of the genuine letters of the church father, Ignatius, and for his chronology that sought to establish the time and date of the creation as "the entrance of the night preceding the 23rd day of October... the year before Christ 4004"; that is, around 6 pm on 22 October 4004 BC according to the proleptic Julian calendar. "

27 posted on 05/04/2019 10:22:55 AM PDT by blam
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To: rdl6989

Maybe.


28 posted on 05/04/2019 10:27:00 AM PDT by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

That Land Bridge always
seemed a bit of a Stretch.

It also appears it started
with That “Tower of Babel”
Dispersal by God which would
have got My Tail in Gear!

Building a boat and Heading Out
would be Job One,,,
Where?
Don’t care, I’m Rowing!


29 posted on 05/04/2019 10:27:50 AM PDT by Big Red Badger (Despised by the Despicable!)
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To: Grimmy
"All of those would be under a lot of water now."

Good point. The North American ice sheets began to recede 15,000 years ago and sea levels rose over 100 feet all over the world.


30 posted on 05/04/2019 10:31:07 AM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom
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To: rdl6989
On the other hand the Jomon of Japan sailed the Black Current from Japan to South America at least 14,000 BC or over a thousand years before the foot print.

Borne on a Black Current
For thousands of years, the Pacific Ocean’s strong currents have swept shipwrecked Japanese sailors onto American shores

31 posted on 05/04/2019 10:33:05 AM PDT by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now it is your turn ...)
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To: KamperKen

“crossed the seas” — there does seem to be a lot of increasing evidence of this in recent years.

I can easily see people migrating 10 miles a year overland following food supplies. But heading out into the the unknown expanse of the ocean. Wow, what prehistoric man would do that? That’s almost unimaginable. That would have to be a sure death sentence.


32 posted on 05/04/2019 10:33:46 AM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom
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To: ivory49

“I believe in God’s science. This world has been around 6 thousand yrs.Maybe a Little bit more.”

About 4.5 billion years more.


33 posted on 05/04/2019 10:33:58 AM PDT by TexasGator (Z1z)
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To: Verginius Rufus

I would buy that legend if it weren’t for the fact that the lawyer landed in Chile. That’s just silly. Chile doesn’t have a problem with swarms of lawyers eating out everything in Chile.

If the refugee lawyer that Noah put in the boat had landed in North America and on the current California coast and had been the progenitor of millions of lawyers, I would have believed it. As it is, it just isn’t believable.


34 posted on 05/04/2019 10:39:52 AM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom
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To: TexasGator

I beg to differ!


35 posted on 05/04/2019 10:44:17 AM PDT by ivory49
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To: KamperKen; ProtectOurFreedom
Human ancestors crossed to Flores from SE Asia 800,000 years ago.

36 posted on 05/04/2019 10:48:44 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

After the lawyer left his footprints, he and his family were devoured by saber-toothed capybaras.


37 posted on 05/04/2019 10:49:56 AM PDT by Verginius Rufus
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To: Robert A Cook PE

Big difference between a targeted known destination long-range trip, and a mass migration of a people. The latter probably required centuries, if not millennia.


38 posted on 05/04/2019 11:02:34 AM PDT by Wonder Warthog (The Hog of Steel and NRA Life Member)
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To: rdl6989

Was the child running? I mean, if a Dinosaur was chasing him for dinner...


39 posted on 05/04/2019 11:25:29 AM PDT by Deplorable American1776 (Proud to be a DeplorableAmerican with a Deplorable Family...even the dog is, too. :-))
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To: rdl6989

Only one foot? Did he hop there? Was he like Superman and left a deep imprint taking off?


40 posted on 05/04/2019 11:25:59 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (Denounce DUAC - The Democrats Un-American Activists Committee)
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