Mysterious Footprints Suggest Neanderthals Climbed a Volcano Right After It Erupted

https://www.sciencealert.com ^ | January 4, 2022 | MIKE MCRAE

[bobbo666]

Perhaps. Walking back out after having tossed in the sacrifice — that obviously stopped the eruption.

[Doctor Congo]

This article got me to thinking. If you were a caveman living near that volcano you probably would have noticed that people getting too near it suddenly died from the poisonous gasses and associating that with an angry volcano god. There is nothing more awe inspiring to cavemen than a volcano. Volcano god is killing people one or a few at a time (poisonous gases) and sometimes huge groups (pyrocastic flows).

I would guess that some ritual forced them to climb to the top as soon as possible after an eruption. If they had shamans then he would have done the climbing in the hot ash, after some peyote or other plant drug.

[Red Badger]

Or he sends his assistant up there to check it out..............

[MeneMeneTekelUpharsin]

By the time he got to the top, the footprints were probably wider (not reported) indicating he was on his above-the-knee nubs when he got there.

[griffin]

Walkie, walkie. No divie, divie.

[griffin]

*Commie-hella Harris was at the foot of the volcano giving a speech....had to get away.

[Doctor Congo]

The worst job for a caveman is Assistant Shaman.
“Hey assistant, I make magical object, you take to red lake of volcano god.”

[JimRed]

Just what inspired an ancient group of hominids to go trouncing through the cooling soot and debris after the mountain violently blew its lid is anybody's guess, though it's clear from the impressions that nobody was in a hurry.

Looking for food, animals that were caught in the eruption, pre-cooked and ready to eat.

[bunkerhill7]

Spock`s parents landed on the volcano to refuel, went down the side of volcano to take some Neanderthal virgins back with them. That why Spock is half Vulcan and half human. Vulcans can live a long long time.

[DeplorablePaul]

Joe Versus The Volcano (1990) Official Trailer - Tom Hanks, Meg Ryan Comedy HD
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cmQDIne3CLo

Tom Hanks comedy. Fairly funny.

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks Red Badger.

[snip] Radiometric and geological dating of the various rock strata have already established that the imprints were cast in the soft blanket of ash left in the wake of an eruption around 350,000 years ago, making them some of the oldest preserved human footprints on record... There seemed to be at least five different bodies behind the marks. Further investigations could help whittle down ideas on the sex, body mass, and perhaps even heights of the trekkers... The broad nature of the hindfoot area, with the low rise of the arch, looks suspiciously like the feet of individuals buried in the Sima de los Huesos "Pit of Bones". [/snip]

[SunkenCiv]

• Keonehelelei - The Story of the Footprints Area [NPS]

[nicollo]

Prehistoric human footprints reveal a rare snapshot of ancient human group behavior
Footprints, preserved in solidified ash, hint at human behavior from as long as 19,000 years ago. Cynthia Liutkus-Pierce, CC BY-ND
https://theconversation.com/prehistoric-human-footprints-reveal-a-rare-snapshot-of-ancient-human-group-behavior-138502

Prehistoric human footprints unearthed on Canada shoreline
Scientists find 29 prints on island in British Columbia, supporting theory that early Americans arrived from Asia
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2018/mar/28/footprints-sand-scientists-prehistoric-canada-british-columbia

The People Faster Than Bolt
The amazing athletic potential our genetics could hold
T8 is the reference to the individual whose fossilized footprints were found and revealed incredible running speeds.
https://medium.com/runners-life/the-people-faster-than-bolt-255832bc8b00

[csvset]

Bigfoot

[ApplegateRanch]

Mysterious, heck!

How else did they expect them to get the virgin up there to stop the eruption>

[null and void]

Sacrificing a virgin?

[Red Badger]

I don’t think they had reached that level of civilization yet. Virgins were pretty hard to come by...................

[PrairieLady2]

“Bigfoot”

I was gonna say that! 😅

[Openurmind]

“There was free barbecued mountain goat for the taking. “

Yep, most likely reason right there.

[null and void]

Well duh, if you come by them they aren't virgins!