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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...
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TOPICS: Mexico; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: clovisfirst; godsgravesglyphs; history; preclovis
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To: SunkenCiv
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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.)
To: gnarledmaw
I bet all the footprints were HEADED NORTH!!!
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posted on
08/18/2005 9:22:40 AM PDT
by
EagleUSA
To: gnarledmaw
...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?
:)
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posted on
08/18/2005 9:23:04 AM PDT
by
ShadowAce
(Linux -- The Ultimate Windows Service Pack)
To: gnarledmaw
Mexican footprints cause scientific stirI thought the story was about tracks left behind after illegals crossed over the border in to the US.
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posted on
08/18/2005 9:23:17 AM PDT
by
CedarDave
(Five years a freeper - 08/17/00)
To: All
Warning: Thread Hijacking Underway
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posted on
08/18/2005 9:23:51 AM PDT
by
COEXERJ145
(Tom Tancredo- The Republican Party's Very Own Cynthia McKinney.)
To: EagleUSA
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posted on
08/18/2005 9:23:57 AM PDT
by
CedarDave
(Five years a freeper - 08/17/00)
To: gnarledmaw
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..........)
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.
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posted on
08/18/2005 9:24:18 AM PDT
by
HushTX
(Your words cannot dishonor another's deeds.)
To: ShadowAce
They found some Saran Wrap nearby.
To: EagleUSA
Damn you beat me to the punch line..
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posted on
08/18/2005 9:24:29 AM PDT
by
Dog
To: EagleUSA
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.
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posted on
08/18/2005 9:24:52 AM PDT
by
HushTX
(Your words cannot dishonor another's deeds.)
To: COEXERJ145; thag; TheBigB
Oh oh. When this has happened to the Official Friday sillienss Thread it has NOT been pretty!!!
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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..........)
To: COEXERJ145
Hey, nothing wrong with a little cynical humor in the morning! ;>)
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posted on
08/18/2005 9:25:00 AM PDT
by
CedarDave
(Five years a freeper - 08/17/00)
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.
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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)
To: COEXERJ145
You didn't have to be Miss Cleo to see that coming.
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posted on
08/18/2005 9:26:25 AM PDT
by
Disambiguator
(Making accusations of racism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.)
To: EagleUSA
the discovery must be well documented to be legally accepted
To: gnarledmaw
Interesting, very very interesting.
To: gnarledmaw; blam; FairOpinion; Ernest_at_the_Beach; StayAt HomeMother; 24Karet; 3AngelaD; asp1; ...
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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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