How do you date a footprint? I understand carbon deating a bone or a tool(although I doubt its accuracy), but how can you rule out the print wasnt made by a kid swimming last weekend?
It's called "SWAG"!
This footprint was in volcanic ash that has since hardened into stone. Ash is easy to date; It can be done stratigraphically, with Potassium-Argon dating, electron-spin resonance techniques, etc.
Renfield got it right. They are dating the stone the footprint is part of, not the footprint. Pretty good science.
My blogpost on this article:
Kinda makes you question the entire notion of "native Americans."
Finally scientists are being allowed to examine the "Kennewick Man" remains, despite the obstructionist tactics of so called native American activists. I think this has more to do with their attempt to suppress their own illicit historic past than any attempt to "protect their ancestors."
America has been peopled many times by many different branches of humanity. The modern PC attempt to inflict guilt on the latest immigrants is deluded and has more to do with anti-western bigotry than it does with preserving any cultural identity.
We (humans from wherever) have been here a long time. The "experts" don't have a clue how people spread across the world or from where, and they don't have the slightest idea of when. the very notion of "first dibs" is obscene.
At least western European civilization rejected human sacrifice, which was the culture of the dominant "civilizations" at the time of our "invasion."
Human progress is human progress. Don't tell me that cutting the heart out of a sacrifical victim is somehow "pure" and defeating an army of head hunters (OK, heart hunters) is somehow "genocide."