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Mexican footprints cause scientific stir
MANBC ^ | 2:01 p.m. ET July 5, 2005 | AP

Posted on 08/18/2005 9:21:43 AM PDT by gnarledmaw

AP LONDON - British scientists claimed on Tuesday to have unearthed 40,000-year-old human footprints in central Mexico, challenging previous studies that put the arrival of the first humans in the Americas at about 13,500 years ago.

Scientists Silvia Gonzalez, from Liverpool John Moores University, and Matthew Bennett, of Bournemouth University, found the footprints in an abandoned quarry close to the Cerro Toluquilla volcano in the Valsequillo Basin...

Continued at MSNBC

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TOPICS: Mexico; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: clovisfirst; godsgravesglyphs; history; preclovis
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1 posted on 08/18/2005 9:21:49 AM PDT by gnarledmaw
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To: SunkenCiv

PING!


2 posted on 08/18/2005 9:22:30 AM PDT by gnarledmaw (I traded freedom for security and all I got were these damned shackles.)
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To: gnarledmaw

I bet all the footprints were HEADED NORTH!!!


3 posted on 08/18/2005 9:22:40 AM PDT by EagleUSA
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...unearthed 40,000-year-old human footprints in central Mexico,...

How do they know the human was 40,000 years old at the time he left the footprints?

:)

4 posted on 08/18/2005 9:23:04 AM PDT by ShadowAce (Linux -- The Ultimate Windows Service Pack)
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To: gnarledmaw
Mexican footprints cause scientific stir

I thought the story was about tracks left behind after illegals crossed over the border in to the US.

5 posted on 08/18/2005 9:23:17 AM PDT by CedarDave (Five years a freeper - 08/17/00)
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6 posted on 08/18/2005 9:23:51 AM PDT by COEXERJ145 (Tom Tancredo- The Republican Party's Very Own Cynthia McKinney.)
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To: EagleUSA

Beat me to it! LOL.


7 posted on 08/18/2005 9:23:57 AM PDT by CedarDave (Five years a freeper - 08/17/00)
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To: gnarledmaw

Across the Rio Grande???


8 posted on 08/18/2005 9:24:06 AM PDT by StrangerInParadise (This tagline has been reported stolen. If you see it, call BR-549..........)
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To: EagleUSA
Did you really have to say it?

Ok, I admit it popped into my head. But I'm going to pretend it didn't and hold the high ground, lol.
9 posted on 08/18/2005 9:24:18 AM PDT by HushTX (Your words cannot dishonor another's deeds.)
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To: ShadowAce

They found some Saran Wrap nearby.


10 posted on 08/18/2005 9:24:18 AM PDT by battlecry
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To: EagleUSA

Damn you beat me to the punch line..


11 posted on 08/18/2005 9:24:29 AM PDT by Dog
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To: EagleUSA

+1 You beat me to it!


12 posted on 08/18/2005 9:24:47 AM PDT by battlecry
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To: EagleUSA
Did you really have to say it?

Ok, I admit it popped into my head. But I'm going to pretend it didn't and hold the high ground, lol.
13 posted on 08/18/2005 9:24:52 AM PDT by HushTX (Your words cannot dishonor another's deeds.)
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To: COEXERJ145; thag; TheBigB

Oh oh. When this has happened to the Official Friday sillienss Thread it has NOT been pretty!!!


14 posted on 08/18/2005 9:24:56 AM PDT by StrangerInParadise (This tagline has been reported stolen. If you see it, call BR-549..........)
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To: COEXERJ145

Hey, nothing wrong with a little cynical humor in the morning! ;>)


15 posted on 08/18/2005 9:25:00 AM PDT by CedarDave (Five years a freeper - 08/17/00)
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To: gnarledmaw

It's kind of funny they call this science, and not compare it to the search for oil, which has not only science in it, but the very latest technology.


16 posted on 08/18/2005 9:26:17 AM PDT by RightWhale (Withdraw from the 1967 UN Outer Space Treaty and open the Land Office)
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To: COEXERJ145

You didn't have to be Miss Cleo to see that coming.


17 posted on 08/18/2005 9:26:25 AM PDT by Disambiguator (Making accusations of racism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.)
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To: EagleUSA

the discovery must be well documented to be legally accepted


18 posted on 08/18/2005 9:26:37 AM PDT by RexFamilia
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To: gnarledmaw

Interesting, very very interesting.


19 posted on 08/18/2005 9:29:32 AM PDT by Just mythoughts
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Thanks gnarledmaw. I think we've got a topic about this, but WTH.

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20 posted on 08/18/2005 9:30:21 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (Down with Dhimmicrats! I last updated by FR profile on Sunday, August 14, 2005.)
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