Posted on 06/23/2015 12:01:15 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
Evidence of what could be the oldest footprints in North America has been discovered below the shoreline of a remote British Columbia island.
Fossilized human footprints believed to be of a man, woman and child and estimated to be more than 13,000 years old were discovered at Calvert Island, which is located on B.C.'s central coast and is accessible only by boat or float plane.
Remnants of an ancient campfire were found nearby.
Archeologist Duncan McLaren said radiocarbon dating indicates the charcoal materials are 13,200 years old, and he is preparing to duplicate those tests to confirm the results...
Fossilized human footprints, especially footprints more than 10,000 years old are rare. McLaren said the oldest human footprints in the Americas are 14,500 years old and were found at a site at Chile's Monte Verde.
Sites in Washington, Oregon and Alaska also confirm human activity more than 14,000 years ago but they do not have fossilized footprints, said McLaren...
The footprints' sizes indicate they were made by a large adult, likely a man, a smaller adult, believed to be a woman, and a child whose feet would fit a present-day child's size-seven shoe.
McLaren said the footprints illustrate how long people have lived along B.C.'s coast. He said the Calvert Island footprints are 800 years older than human footprints discovered on nearby Haida Gwaii...
Sea levels along B.C.'s coast have shifted dramatically over the centuries due to ice ages, but Calvert Island has remained relatively stable, he said.
B.C.'s Lower Mainland and Haida Gwaii have risen and dropped by more than 150 metres, washing out many potential archeological sites, but Calvert Island is the same place it was thousands of years ago, he said.
(Excerpt) Read more at news.nationalpost.com ...
The oldest found in the Americas so far? Monte Verde, about 1,500 years older than these.
"I told him and told him; 'Wipe your feet before you come in. I'm not sweeping up behind you just because you had a long day outrunning wolves.' But no, he wouldn't. Well those dirty prints can stay on the kitchen floor 'til the end of time, for all I care." -Ooa Pnuthuwach
Well there is the Taylor Trail where a series of 14 sequential human footprints on the same platform with at least 134 dinosaur tracks. Wouldn’t that be older? Yes, I know some conspiracy theorists said they were carved, the human feet that is.
There are no such tracks. There are some assorted dino tracks, including at least one 24 inch dino track that bears a slight resemblance to a human track, no doubt because like humans, dinos had feet and walked on the ground.
“Sea levels along B.C.’s coast have shifted dramatically over the centuries due to ice ages, but Calvert Island has remained relatively stable, he said.
B.C.’s Lower Mainland and Haida Gwaii have risen and dropped by more than 150 metres, washing out many potential archeological sites, but Calvert Island is the same place it was thousands of years ago, he said.”
I hate poorly written articles. The above makes no sense.
Hey! I have a book about those tracks. They do exist.
http://www.discoverynews.us/DISCOVERY%20MUSEUM/DinosaurWorld/tracks1.html
http://www.bible.ca/tracks/taylor-trail.htm
And there’s the one where a ancient sandal had stepped on an extinct bug that supposedly lived millions of years ago. I personally don’t care on way or other. There’s conflicting statements on it from either side.
Also, did those dino’s have feet that looked human?
For the last time, I told you! I wasn’t there!
Everyone keeps blaming me, but even if I was there, it had nothing to do with taking the wrong turn at Albuquerque.
I'll leave the decision up to the guy who really knows footprints from 13,000 years ago, give or take a year.
As a side note, can this guy tell me how long cheese has been in my refrigerator based on the layers of penicillin growing on it?
Bugs are going extinct on a regular basis. How would they know when a particular bug went extinct, especially since they deny so much science and the proofs science uses to determine extinction, evolution, age, etc.
Used to be bugs left cave men alone, because otherwise they’d just be part of a balanced breakfast.
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