They've got sources...
Posted on 01/16/2006 10:13:24 AM PST by furball4paws
Stone age human footprints have been found near an ancient lake in Australia. The prints date from 19,000-23,000 years and include children and several adults. Kangaroo prints are also among the finds.
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How else could they date these? Seems a tricky business to me.
Not too many years ago I could run a 5 minute mile (although not now) and I'm about 6 ft. But I never could run 26 of them at a time. I only ever ran 2 marathons and the best I did was slightly less than 8 minutes. Needless to say I didn't finish anywhere the top :)
And they were trying to catch a kangaroo to pull it out of the mud.
Life sucks sometimes.
How many other fossil human prints do we know of? I can't remember ever hearing about any.
Can we tell a woman's foot from a man's?
Can we tell an aboriginal foot from another stone age man? Can we tell a WASP foot from an aboriginal one?(
So many questions, no answers)
>Hmmm.....a marathon is 26 miles...at 12 miles/hour....or 5 minutes a mile
A 2:10 marathon (approximately & rounded)
Pretty good for a "recreational runner today"!
Methinks they need another working hypo here.
Achieving a certain speed is not the same as maintaining the same speed. They never claimed the "Stone Age folk" could maintain 12 miles per hour for 26 miles.
Humans have changed little in 100,000 years.
It's the climate that changed and allowed farming and cities and language to develop.
There was a reported fossilized human footprint right next to a dinosaur footprint. Shocked all the "millions and millions ago" crowd.
They've got sources...
Except that they were carnivorous and winged.
And were proved to be something else altogether. I think Dimensio knows about these.
It's just my guess, but in the days before reliable firearms men probably ran away from more things than they ran after.
Interesting. I hadn't heard.
This is really anthropology, not evolution. Or so it seems. However, I'll ping "the few."
There are quite a few. Mary Leakey found some nice ones in Africa, and they are arguing about some now in Mexico.
If you don't have volcanics, dating can be a problem. Volcanics, like they usually have in Africa make things pretty easy.
Telling male from female would be difficult, and most likely would relate to size and stride length, etc. There are currently some pretty good forensic types who can do amazing things, so they may have some techniques I don't know about.
Man Tracks? A Summary of the Paluxy "Man Track" Controversy .
I thought folks who never wore shoes had more separation between the big toe and the smaller ones.
Take off your shoes for a few weeks, and then ask that question.
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