Alleged 40,000-Year-Old Human Footprints In Mexico Much, Much Older Than Thought

Eureka Alert/UC-Berkeley ^ | 11-30-2005 | Robert Sanders

[muir_redwoods]

"Wow, I never heard of the Bering land bridge never having existed. Is that a, you know, non-fringe idea?"

It appeared in the news this year, maybe 6 months ago. I'll try to dig it up but it was based upon some oceanographers work that failed to find evidence that the sea level as ever low enough to expose the sea floor in that part of the Bering sea. Seemed pretty mainstream to me, I don't generally read the fringe stuff.

[jennyp]

those pistures, and many others, come up on a google image search of "Mexico ancient footprints" They are probably the same ones.

"Mexico ancient footprints" brings up a few weird photos! :-)

I found the source for those photos you posted. If I read this page en espanol correctamente, those are in Managua, Nicaragua.

[blam]

"It appeared in the news this year, maybe 6 months ago. I'll try to dig it up but it was based upon some oceanographers work that failed to find evidence that the sea level as ever low enough to expose the sea floor in that part of the Bering sea. "

Ping me too. I've not seen anything about this either.

[Coyoteman]

Please ping me to. Thanks.

[SunkenCiv]

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[SunkenCiv]

:') It would mean that the most recent flip was 40,000 years ago. But as someone else pointed out, that's average. It's also not much good for dating except for ballparking, because other methods have to be used to determine the age of the deposit.

[AmericanVictory]

They were gellin'.

[adam_az]

" Where do you buy your cosmoline? Since my local Army-Navy Store went out of business I haven't seen any."

Vaseline is just about the same, just slightly more refined.

[Dustbunny]

Wow...... have to remember to read the article and posts later and maybe to a little Googling.

[Hegemony Cricket]

Wow - footprints of a 40,000 year old human? I hope I'm able to walk when I get that old!

[Dustbunny]

Millions of years, now isn't that interesting.

[blam]

"Millions of years, now isn't that interesting."

Amazing, huh?

I'm anxious to hear your theory that explains this.

[Dustbunny]

I'm anxious to hear your theory that explains this.

?????? not sure what you mean.

If you are talking about God and creation, I have never believed that God's idea of time and ours coincide. There has to be an explanation for the fossil remains of the dinosaurs etc.. Which is why although I am a Christian and believe in creation I do not find it logical to say the earth is 6,000 years old.

I was young when I decided about the time frame. It is logical and having done accounting all my working life I had to find logic. So what works for me is, God's time is more likely a million years to one of our hours or a billion or more years to one of our days.

Is this what you meant about my 'theory'? It is as good as or better than many I have heard.

[blam]

"Is this what you meant about my 'theory'? It is as good as or better than many I have heard."

Mainly I was just 'funning' with you.

I haven't a theory at all good or bad...which is rare for me, lol.

I do know that Africa and S America began splitting apart 120 million years ago, so...they either developed here, took a boat or walked around through Berlinga.

I'm expecting the dates to be proven wrong.

[NukeMan]

Exactly....Epluribus_2 has the right idea probably, in that one or both testing methods (Ar-Ar or C-14) may be flawed. It's odd how Renne didn't mention that possibility.

[Dustbunny]

Oops, sorry.

I do know that Africa and S America began splitting apart 120 million years ago, so...they either developed here, took a boat or walked around through Berlinga.

I'm expecting the dates to be proven wrong.

Yes, I am sure they will be updating the information on the dates. They always do.

It would be great if we did not have so much 'theory' and more provable facts.

I love this stuff.

[SunkenCiv]

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[SunkenCiv]

Indigenous Archaeology
Dr. Anthony Cagle
Tuesday, May 18, 2010

I've gotten through several of the papers in response to McGhee's original paper on Indigenous Archaeology (IA). I'm afraid they are not pursuading me of any essential incorrectness of McGhee's central argument, though I think there is some talking past each other going on. Few address what I think is McGhee's central thesis, whether IA is contributing or has the potential to contribute to archaeological explanation. Lots of assertions are made about how Indigenous peoples can provide special "insight" or "perspectives" on archaeological remains, but that strikes me as largely polemical. What insight and is it in any way supportable? Croes has been the most specific so far, giving a few actual examples, but these are pretty unimpressive in my view. Largely it revolves around tribal "elders" (did you know that a contemporary tribal "elder" would have grown up in the 1950s? How does that relate to having expertise in explaining something from 2,000 years ago?) providing "detailed knowledge" of certain artifacts or features. Stating that only begs the question of whether this "knowledge" is in any way accurate or demonstrable. He mentions one instance where they tested some interpretations of shanked fishooks experimentally, but that is neither a new idea nor sufficient to establish anything beyond plausibility. He also goes into some basketry traditions that may have some elements of design spanning thousands of years and miles, but that's really not an IA question either, but a longstanding archaeological problem.

[SunkenCiv]

[SunkenCiv]

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