Footprint Fossils Analyzed for Ancient Human Gait

Scientific American Observations ^ | Thursday, July 22, 2010 | Zahra Hirji

[SunkenCiv]

Out in the Kenyan desert, a trail of extremely old footprints are etched into sedimentary rock -- a memory of early humans and how they moved... around 1.5 million years ago, these are the oldest footprints that look like those made by modern humans. A team of scientists, including Brian Richmond from George Washington University, discovered these precious fossilized prints in dried mud in 2009... “A fossilized footprint is basically fossilized behavior," Richmond said. 'It shows you what the individual did 1.5 million years ago that instant in time." And what do those prints tell Richmond? "Sure enough, they were walking with a long stride, they had an arch in the foot the way we have." ...The development of specialized foot tendons, called spring tendons, paved the way for our wonderful arches. Spring tendons enhance the foot's efficiency: some of the energy spent to drop one's weight down when taking a step is actually stored and then returned to the leg as it rebounds. Scientists believe that the ancient footprints were laid down by Homo erectus, a human ancestor that appeared around 1.8 million years ago. Unlike earlier ancestors, these hunted, made tools and even used fire. Homo erectus was also physically similar to modern humans with large brains and bodies. By the looks of it, the fossilized foot impressions seem identical to the ones we make when walking across the sand. But how similar are they really?

[SunkenCiv]

• Prints Are Evidence of Modern Foot in Prehumans [February 26, 2009]
• Ancient boy's skeleton sparks evolution debate (In Kenya) [February 6, 2007]

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• Ancient Human Footprints Look Modern
• Kenyan Fossils May Add New Branch to Human Family Tree
• Finds test human origins theory

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[SunkenCiv]

• Human ancestors walked comfortably upright 3.6 million years ago, new footprint study says
• Laetoli Footprints Preserve Earliest Direct Evidence of Human-Like Bipedal Biomechanics

[dr_who]

Turning and turning in the widening gyre
The falcon cannot hear the falconer;
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
The best lack all conviction, while the Democrats
Are full of passionate intensity.
Surely some revelation is at hand;
Surely the Second Coming is at hand.
The Second Coming! Hardly are those words out
When a vast image out of Kenya
Troubles my sight: somewhere in the sands of the desert
A shape of an donkey and the head of a man,
A gaze blank and smerky as a QVC host,
Is moving its slow thighs, while all about it
Reel shadows of the indignant lefty congressmen.
The darkness drops again; but now I know
That forty years of welfare, political correctness, and counterculture
were vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle,
And what rough beast, its hour come round at last,
Slouches towards Washington to be born?

[maine-iac7]

“fall completely within the range of normal human footprints,”

hard pill for evolutionists - well, honest ones.

[Dan B Cooper]

"Slouches towards Washington to be born"

[SERKIT]

And now for something completely different: The Minister of Silly Walks.

[Persevero]

Have they ever found human footprint fossils that were not the same as our modern ones? Not as far as I know.

That’s because mankind has had the same design foot since mankind started.

There is no missing link.

[maine-iac7]

exactly.
But no matter how many times it's proved, they will not let go of the myth.

I once confused a lib/evolutionist so badly that, decades latter, it still bothers her.

She insisted we evolved from apes.
I said, “Like the elephant evolved from the mammoths, now extinct?”
“Yes”, she smiled.
“And the horse evolved from the eohippus, now extinct?”
“Exactly.”
“Then why do we still have apes? If we “evolved from” them?”

Her mouth hung open. No answer.
I ran into her some years later and she was still bothered by it.
Made my day.
“

[Mind-numbed Robot]

That’s because mankind has had the same design foot since mankind started.

Not according to Dr. Scholl. :-)

[colorado tanker]

Felt like starting a food fight today, eh Civ?

[SunkenCiv]

Why, whatever do you mean? ;’)

The best way to start a food fight, pretty much anywhere on the Internet, is to set out a buffet-style banquet.

[colorado tanker]

Works every time. :-))

[SunkenCiv]

LOL!

[SunkenCiv]

Mysterious Footprints in Tanzania Made by Early Humans, Not Bears
https://home.dartmouth.edu/news/2021/12/mysterious-footprints-tanzania-made-early-humans-not-bears