Scientists Find 800,000-Year-Old Footprints In UK

phys.org/news ^ | 2-7-2014 | Jill Lawless

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Scientists Find 800,000-Year-Old Footprints Inn UK (Update)

Jill Lawless
Febuary 7, 2014

Undated handout photo issued by the British Museum Friday Feb. 7, 2014 of some of the human footprints, thought to be more than 800,000 years old, found in silt on the beach at Happisburgh on the Norfolk coast of England, with a camera lens …

They were a British family on a day out—almost a million years ago.

Archaeologists announced Friday that they have discovered human footprints in England that are between 800,000 and 1 million years old—the most ancient found outside Africa, and the earliest evidence of human life in northern Europe.

A team from the British Museum, London's Natural History Museum and Queen Mary college at the University of London uncovered imprints from up to five individuals in ancient estuary mud at Happisburgh on the country's eastern coast.

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[SunkenCiv]

from the FRchives:

• One million-year-old settlement uncovered in Britain
• Neanderthal may not be the oldest Dutchman [ 370,000 years B.P. ]
• Sea gives up Neanderthal fossil [ dredged up from the North Sea ]
• Paleolithic Handaxes From The North Sea (Neanderthals)
• Adapt, Move Or Die: Prehistoric Climate Change
• Delving Deep Into Britain's Past
• Stone Age Elephant Found at Ancient U.K. Hunt Site
• Prehistoric Knives Suggest Humans Competed
• Archaeologists Excited By 500,000-Year-Old Axe Find In Quarry

[BroJoeK]

The Sons of Liberty: "Supposedly, “Mitochondrial Eve” lived 209,000 years ago, so they’re going to have to get together and work out their stories."

From the article:

"The researchers said the humans who left the footprints may have been related to Homo antecessor, or "pioneer man," whose fossilized remains have been found in Spain.
That species died out about 800,000 years ago."

"Homo antecessor" were not "human beings".
They are thought to have possibly been our ancient ancestors in Europe similar, possibly related to, "homo erectus", "homo egaster" and/or "homo heidelbergensis".
Antecessor predates Neanderthals, and may-or-may-not be their, or our, direct ancestors.

These footprints add to Antecessor remains found at two sites in Spain, one in France and two others in England.

[ElkGroveDan]

I just mopped that estuary darn it!

[Altariel]

For the last time, this is all circumstantial evidence. You can’t prove it was I!

[Cruising Speed]

Whoever it was 800kya, they certainly weren’t British! Also, at that time, the British Isles were not islands at all but still part of the mainland.

[ApplegateRanch]

Probably illegal aliens sneaking into the country.<

Ask Mad mo; he'll tell you they were "proto-Muslims".

[SunkenCiv]

The whorls will be a dead giveaway!