[Navy Patriot]

I assume these footprints are pointed North.

[blam]

GGG Ping.

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

[ASA Vet]

Thanks Bill, another excellent find.

Doc, what are your thoughts on this?

[knarf]

I don't ordinarilly do this, but as a born again Christian, and an obvious creationist, I always marvel at the wording of these kinds of articles ... and the theories they "support" or propose.

Footprints (one left) left in volcanic ash that fell in central Mexico’s Valsequillo Basin about 40,000 years could be evidence that humans have inhabited the Americas far longer than previously confirmed. Laser scans of the prints (right) confirm their human origins, the researchers report today at the American Geophysical Union meeting.

Footprints left in volcanic ash that fell in central Mexico’s Valsequillo Basin about 40,000 years ago are evidence that humans have inhabited the Americas far longer than previously confirmed, a new study suggests.

Analyses of three-dimensional laser scans of the imprints (example at right) confirm their human origin, says Silvia Gonzalez, a geoarchaeologist at Liverpool John Moores University in England.

Previous finds of human remains elsewhere in the region couldn’t be precisely dated because they were found in layers of mixed gravels that probably incorporated materials of many different ages.

However, a new analysis of the coarse-grained, print-ridden volcanic ash — which would have hardened quickly after it fell, says Gonzalez — strongly suggest the material fell around 40,000 years ago, she and her colleagues reported today in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., at a meeting of the American Geophysical Union.

Excavations at several sites have suggested that humans have inhabited the Western Hemisphere for at least 20,000 years, but results suggesting dates of occupation before 14,000 years ago typically haven’t been confirmed and remain controversial.

Nevertheless, says Gonzalez, recent excavations at a site in Baja California have unearthed a rock shelter containing heaps of shells that have been carbon-dated as 44,000 years old, a finding that bolsters the notion that people lived throughout the region about 40 millennia ago.

Could'a, might'a, maybe .. does, is, suggests, confirms ....

No wonder people are confused.

It's so easy to accept God and His word and the most generally accepted dates of recent creation and 10,000 or so years of existence.

[Bender2]

I have always been of the mind that humans got to the Americas much earlier than the Clovis Culture. To come into an empty landscape as big as the North and South American continents (28.4% of its land area of earth) and to fill it with all the different tribes and cultures as found by the Spaniards, English and later explorers would require much longer than the 14,000 years generally given as the earliest date for human arrival in Paleoindian New Mexico.

[Dog Gone]

Frankly, this puzzles me. A new discovery that at least doubles and perhaps triples the timeline for humans in the western hemisphere.

I don’t know how such a date fits with the theory of a migration from asia during the Ice Age which exposed a land bridge from Asia to Alaska.

The whole concept might have to be re-thought.

[Eternal_Bear]

Bigfoot?

[SunkenCiv]

Obviously this topic will unfortunately be a bloodbath. So, I'm gonna post this and the ping message, and get out.

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