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Scientists find 800,000-year-old footprints in UK
San Francisco Chronicle ^
| February 7, 2014
| JILL LAWLESS
Posted on 02/08/2014 10:55:20 AM PST by artichokegrower
LONDON (AP) They were a British family on a day out almost a million years ago.
Archaeologists announced Friday that they have discovered human footprints in England that are between 800,000 and 1 million years old the most ancient found outside Africa, and the earliest evidence of human life in northern Europe.
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TOPICS: History; Science
KEYWORDS: archaeology; fauxiantrolls; footprints; godsgravesglyphs; neandertal; neandertals; neanderthal; neanderthals; paleontology; trackway; trackways; unitedkingdom
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They were a British family
Yeah a family. Mom,dad,kids not mom,mom,kids or dad,dad,kids. They had it right back then.
To: artichokegrower
More likely hooligans walking through their times version of wet cement!
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posted on
02/08/2014 10:58:01 AM PST
by
Mastador1
(I'll take a bad dog over a good politician any day!)
To: artichokegrower
Caveman family out for walk. Og is father, Poq is mother. They come back from hunting catch Mastadon. But Obama cave family want cut even though they sleep all day otherwise they steal Ogs cave and auction it off.
To: artichokegrower
Hmmmm. Wonder what the weather was like that day. Probably steaming hot due to glow-bull............ Well, glow bull!
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posted on
02/08/2014 11:01:25 AM PST
by
rktman
(Under my plan(scheme),unemployment will necessarily skyrocket! Despite the % dropping. Period.)
To: artichokegrower
Another flimsy misuse of the term “Scientists.”
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posted on
02/08/2014 11:03:11 AM PST
by
editor-surveyor
(Freepers: Not as smart as I'd hoped they'd be)
To: artichokegrower
Wow that is amazing, I didn’t know Canon cameras was around back then.
To: artichokegrower
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posted on
02/08/2014 11:07:00 AM PST
by
AFret.
("Charlie don't surf ! ")
To: artichokegrower
Maybe humans started in the UK, but migrated south for the warmer weather?
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posted on
02/08/2014 11:07:54 AM PST
by
Cowboy Bob
(They are called "Liberals" because the word "parasite" was already taken.)
To: editor-surveyor
What gets me is where are they seeing these human footprints? The only thing that slightly resembles a footprint is the one to the right of the Canon lens cap, but that could be anything. A freakin' rock could have made that.
To: GrandJediMasterYoda
I didnt know Canon cameras was around back then. Which makes me think they may not have been a "British family". Could have been a bunch of tourists from anywhere visiting there on vacation.
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posted on
02/08/2014 11:14:44 AM PST
by
FlingWingFlyer
(ObamaCare. The "global warming" of healthcare plans.)
To: artichokegrower
This is solid proof that camels were not domesticated yet, or the family would have been riding them.
Science is fun!
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posted on
02/08/2014 11:14:59 AM PST
by
BykrBayb
(Somewhere, my flower is there. ~ Þ)
To: artichokegrower
To: FlingWingFlyer
They must have been Japanese.
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posted on
02/08/2014 11:17:53 AM PST
by
BykrBayb
(Somewhere, my flower is there. ~ Þ)
To: artichokegrower
I don’t know...they don’t look a century over 700.00 years old to me.
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posted on
02/08/2014 11:19:26 AM PST
by
4yearlurker
(Some people say that experts agree!!)
To: BykrBayb
Could be. That one footprint looks like the guy had on “flip flops”.
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posted on
02/08/2014 11:19:32 AM PST
by
FlingWingFlyer
(ObamaCare. The "global warming" of healthcare plans.)
To: GrandJediMasterYoda
Those are KEDS tracks!
We used to make the same footprints in the mud back in the 60’s!
Funny thing though... I don’t think they had KEDS back, say, ohh, 800,000 years ago! These are SHOE prints if anything.
Scientists, schmientists...
To: GrandJediMasterYoda
You’re correct,there is nothing about it other than its outline that has any of the characteristics of a foot print.
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posted on
02/08/2014 11:25:05 AM PST
by
editor-surveyor
(Freepers: Not as smart as I'd hoped they'd be)
To: joethedrummer
>> “We used to make the same footprints in the mud back in the 60s!” <<
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‘Cept they didn’t make tredless ‘surfer’ keds in the ‘60s.
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posted on
02/08/2014 11:26:45 AM PST
by
editor-surveyor
(Freepers: Not as smart as I'd hoped they'd be)
To: artichokegrower
The moms footprint was red and Louboutin could be seen on the heel
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posted on
02/08/2014 11:28:16 AM PST
by
Cyman
(We have to pass it to see what's in it= definition of stool sample)
To: artichokegrower
Is that a Bruno Magli footprint?
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posted on
02/08/2014 12:10:51 PM PST
by
lurk
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