This hoax has been going on for 50 years. I met the orignal owner of this land and he is a a self promoter. I have seen the prints that they refer to and they are not prints of man...but, if it furthers your cause, promote it, as the owner did to get admission to his “Jurassic park.” The dinosaur prints are real, however...
The original owner of what land?
The land where this find from 8 years previous is said to have originated, or the nearby land which is now Dinosaur Valley State Park?
You state;"I have seen the prints that they refer to and they are not prints of man..."
You have? These are not some of the previously promoted finds which I believe you may be referring to.
Try reading the article. You may see what I mean. The finder/owner of this particular rock, claims he didn't see the *human* print, until he went to carefully clean the rock with a brush. It was then that the man says he first saw the human print. As the article mentions, he claims he was cleaning the piece, prior to offering it for sale, to help pay for medical bills incurred by himself. As is further stated, this cleaning, and appearance of the human print occurred only a couple of months of so ago. "Third week of May", as is quoted..."
Do you still maintain that you have seen this particular print?
Now whether this alleged find is for real, or cooked up, I don't know. But the article claimed the rock had been subjected to CAT scans at the Glen Rose Medical Center (there is such a place?).
The scans purportedly showed compression layers beneath the prints, along with having embedded shells of the type associated with limestone rocks in that area.
If all of that is actually true, then the compression lines or layers, would seem to show the prints were not carved. If the imprints of the shells also found in the rock are of creatures no longer existent, then that would seem to be further indication (that the fossil prints were genuine).
Unless someone went to the trouble of carefully removing such shells from other material, then mixing them in with whatever other material one was making a slurry out of, how could they get there? If this was faked...
The presence of the shells, along with compression layers (if there are such?) makes at least the beginnings of a compelling case, regardless of what other evidences and theories might lead on to expect.
Then again, it could still be could totally bogus. I really don't know...