Fossil footprints from the site Schöningen 13 II-2 Untere Berme.Credit: University of Tübingen
Posted on 05/15/2023 6:46:53 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
...an international research team led by scientists from the University of Tübingen and the Senckenberg Center for Human Evolution and Paleoenvironment presents the earliest human footprints known from Germany. The tracks were discovered in the roughly 300,000-year-old Schöningen Paleolithic site complex in Lower Saxony. The footprints, presumably from Homo heidelbergensis, are surrounded by several animal tracks—collectively, they present a picture of the ecosystem at that time.
In an open birch and pine forest with an understory of grasses sits a lake, a few kilometers long and several hundred meters wide. On its muddy shores, herds of elephants, rhinoceroses, and even-toed ungulates gather to drink or bathe. In the midst of this scenery stands a small family of "Heidelberg people," a species of human long since extinct...
The scientists attribute two of the three human tracks at Schöningen to young individuals who used the lake and its resources in a small mixed-age group...
The various tracks at Schöningen offer a snapshot of a family's daily life and may provide information about the behavior and social composition of hominin groups as well as spatial interactions and coexistence with elephant herds and other, smaller mammals, according to the study...
In addition to the human tracks, the team analyzed a series of elephant tracks attributable to the extinct species Palaeoloxodon antiquus—an elephant with straight tusks that was the largest land animal at the time and whose adult bulls reached a body weight of up to 13 tons.
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Fossil footprints from the site Schöningen 13 II-2 Untere Berme.Credit: University of Tübingen
Family outing, elephants -- obviously the circus was in town.
Is Helen Thomas that old?
Probably Dianne Feinstein’s when she was a kid.
Probably Dianne Feinstein’s when she was a kid.
From Germany?
Those footprints are likely from the first migrants coming from Africa, trying to escape the deadly heat that started the global-warming/climate-change crisis which is still ongoing now.
John Kerry will be there soon to point to humans as the initiators of climate change.
It’s big! It’s big big!
Did I get transported back to 2003?
Mom went down to the lake to get her kids.
Grabbing each by an ear Heidelbergensis Mom said "How many times have I told you not to play around the elephants and rhinoceri?"
Every time they discover footprints in stone I wonder what happened that these footprints were left undisturbed for literally millennia to allow them to become rocks?
Never rained again, never snowed, the wind never blew and leaves never fell into them, no other animals came to mess them up, nothing happened.
It’s as if time itself was stopped for a long period...................
Found a palm sized rock a couple of months ago out on the homestead that has what appears to be a child’s footprint embedded in it. Pretty cool looking.
Yes, now ask yourself, how did this footprint become stone?
It had to have lain undisturbed for a loooong time in order to preserve that footprint in stone that was originally mud........................
LOL
It’s as if time itself was stopped for a long period...................
A stream in Austin Texas still has dinosaur tracks in it time does stop of nothing disturbs it.
We live in a subdivision in Texas that has dinosaur footprints in the rocks by a creek. We’re 1000 ft above sea level, a couple hundred miles from the Gulf of Mexico. The story here is that the dinosaur walked in mud at the edge of the Gulf. Algae then formed a layer in the footprint. Saltwater covered the prints and small shells from the sea water filled in the prints. Sea levels rose, and the shells covered the prints to a level many feet thick. The pressure from above turned the shells into limestone.
However, silt, and mud, from surrounding rivers was filling the Gulf, as the delta around New Orleans is doing today. This caused the ocean floor to sink, but the land near us rose from the pressure of the ocean floor going down. This is what pushed our elevation up 1000 feet. We live right on the Balcones Fault, the line where this uplift occurred. Erosion then washed away the covering limestone over the footprints, exposing them. It took 100 million years for this all to happen.
This certainly is a unique set of circumstances but think of all the hundreds of trillions of footprints that didn’t get covered, turned to rock, and then uncovered later.
Were they goosestepping ?
No pictures taken vertically?
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