Ping! This is older than Monte Verde.
If they found footprints in Chile, how long would it have taken people to migrate south from the Bering land bridge? 1,000 years? 5,000?
I’m always curious what prompted people to move and how far they could go in one year. Did they move 10 miles a year? 50?
Did they know that there could be places with warmer climates and that they should head south? How could they have known that?
“May Be”
I believe in God’s science. This world has been around 6 thousand yrs.Maybe a Little bit more.
well if chunky Honduran girls can walk to the USA in a matter of weeks .......
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Maybe.
Borne on a Black Current
For thousands of years, the Pacific Ocean’s strong currents have swept shipwrecked Japanese sailors onto American shores
Was the child running? I mean, if a Dinosaur was chasing him for dinner...
Only one foot? Did he hop there? Was he like Superman and left a deep imprint taking off?
Turns out the Indians stole South America from black people and stole North America from white people.
Is it too late to ask for reparations?
But the footprint is twice as old as the Earth.
The interesting thing is a date that old may require assessing WHEN humans got to the New World
The ice age land bridge theories plus the traversal of that much distance - that they got across differently and/or moved along coasts quite fast to get to south america
For anyone interested in this topic here is a link to an article
with theories about the land bridge, people locating, etc.
A New History of the First Peoples in the Americas
Published Oct. 3, 2017
A 20 minute or so read.......
I’ve been into this stuff for a long time.
I found a very good article a while back about a dig in South America, never spotted a follow up, but they found a stone tool in a layer of soil determined to be about 20,000 years old, indicating human existence in the Americas long before ever suspected.
Another find in the 90’s was wood on the western shores of South America from a ship originating in Europe or Asia but I can’t remember the dates, seems like it was over 10,000 years ago.
Some finds in north America also point to the possibility of humans in this hemisphere 10,000 to 20,000 years ago, while the Clovis people were originally considered the first, at about 12,000 years ago.
The biggest problem is dating objects that old. Most organic matter that can be carbon dated is unlikely to last 10,000 years or more, even in arid climates like the southwest. Often the best evidence they can find is things like the depth of soil in which an item is found or surrounding areas with signs of a known geological event or natural disaster, such as the widespread evidence of flooding worldwide at a certain time period. One good example is a well preserved pair of woven sandals found in a cave somewhere in the Southwest that were approximately 10,000 years old. Very unusual. Most places, these would have rotted to dust in 200 years. Or less. In south Louisiana about 3 hours...OK I’m exaggerating...
The possibility of prehistoric travelers arriving here by boat shouldn’t be dismissed. Columbus sailed out into relatively unknown seas, Vikings are commonly believed to have sailed here at least 500 years before Columbus, so why wouldn’t some adventurous soul much earlier than them decide to see what’s on the other side of that sunrise? Evidence supporting the idea has been found. Not enough to confirm it as fact, but enough to leave the question open.
Footprints are so rarely preserved that this one is miraculous.