Revealed: The Runners Of 20,000BC

SMH ^ | 12-22-2005 | Deborah Smith

[blam]

GGG Ping.

[starfish923]

Perhaps there was a giant set of speakers playing Ethel Merman CDs and they all simply ran away as fast as they could.

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks Blam. Excellent find (both the prints and the article).

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[linear]

I'm guessing it was the day after Thanksgiving and they were sprinting to get the 50% off on LCD TVs.

Can you tell I'm burnt out on shopping?

[colorado tanker]

Hey, The Merm still has some fans out here!

[Flavius]

Willandra Lakes Region World Heritage Area Three Traditional Tribal Groups Elders Corporation

WLRWHATTTGEC's coooool name

[aimhigh]

human footprints dating back to about 20,000BC

Hogwash. Why not just add another 100,000 years. To claim these prints would prevail against weatherization back then, until now, for 20,000 years is ludicrous.

[Natural Law]

Hey Einstein, do you need someone to connect the dots for you every time? The foot prints were laid down in moist clay near the banks of a now dry lake. the prints would have been silted in and then dried when the lake dried up resulting in a mudbrick. The story also mentioned that the prints are now emerging from under dunes. The sand dunes would have protected them for thousands of hears from the effects of erosion.

As a side note, there are prints preserved in sedimentary rock well over 200 million years old.

[badgerlandjim]

Global warming has since dried up these wetlands - damned western civilization...

[7thson]

Bush's fault! /sarc

[Wolfstar]

As a side note, there are prints preserved in sedimentary rock well over 200 million years old.

Such facts are lost on those whose intelligence quotient falls on the low side of the human intelligence bell curve.

[Hegemony Cricket]

or, Maybe they were just "revved up like a duece, another runner in the night"?

[r9etb]

Hey Einstein, do you need someone to connect the dots for you every time? The foot prints were laid down in moist clay near the banks of a now dry lake. the prints would have been silted in and then dried when the lake dried up resulting in a mudbrick. The story also mentioned that the prints are now emerging from under dunes. The sand dunes would have protected them for thousands of hears from the effects of erosion.

Actually, uber-Einstein, your scenario doesn't even match the one printed in the article. Perhaps your belligerence should be more self-directed?

[wolfcreek]

As a side note, there are prints preserved in sedimentary rock well over 200 million years old.

I can attest to that. Our HOA owns land along a river that runs through the property. There are dino tracks exposed in the bedrock and area universities often come to study them. The problem is, as erosion wares away at these tracks, they will only be visible for a few more years.

[Natural Law]

I suspect that we are dealing with the shallow end of the gene pool.

[DugwayDuke]

"I'm guessing it was the day after Thanksgiving and they were sprinting to get the 50% off on LCD TVs."

I'll bet that if they look around they'll find evidence of a pre-historic walmart around there somewhere.

[Wolfstar]

I suspect that we are dealing with the shallow end of the gene pool.

Indeed.

[vollmond]

I suspect that we are dealing with the shallow end of the gene pool.

It can be argued that competition for resources in the shallow end can result in "tougher/smarter" organisms. Those living the fat and happy life in the deep end become lunch later when the two sides meet.

[MillerCreek]

So, a man from the Somalian desert will eventually eat Ted Kennedy?

Alrighty, then.

~;-D