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“Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story”
Popular Mechanics has lost its way.
they were Palestinian feet...
Fascinating.
There is a lot of if there. Fingerprint, calculate, clues, approximate. I haven’t read far enough to see the word “estimate” but I know it’s in there. Probably probably is in there too.
Archeologist are going to be amazed in 100,000 years when they discover the Hollywood walk of fame !!!
115,000 years ago is not long in evolutionary terms. Our ancestors have been trying to get out of Africa for a long time. I have the impression that Homo Erectus was the first hominid subspecies to successfully make it, and presumably there were many small groups that attempted it. Most probably didn’t make it, or didn’t survive long in a new environment. (”Hello, winter. What’s this? Whaddya mean there’s no low-hanging fruit for the next eight or nine months and all the migratory animals are gone?”)
We know that as recently as 5-7,000 years ago, the Sahara, the Levant and the Arabian peninsula were wetter than they are today. 115,000 years ago? Probably. Cycles do tend to come and go.
There is a footprint of a dinosaur overlaying a human footprint. Because it’s such a pain in the butt to post pictures on here, I’m not going to bother.
No surprise; modern humans were present 300,000 years ago, according to mitochondrial DNA, and in the fossil record to 200,000 years ago.