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Scientists Find 800,000-Year-Old Footprints In UK
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| 2-7-2014
| Jill Lawless
Posted on 02/07/2014 3:10:44 PM PST by blam
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posted on
02/08/2014 7:11:58 AM PST
by
SunkenCiv
(http://www.freerepublic.com/~mestamachine/)
To: The Sons of Liberty; blam; Ditter; Theo
The Sons of Liberty:
"Supposedly, Mitochondrial Eve lived 209,000 years ago, so theyre going to have to get together and work out their stories." From the article:
"The researchers said the humans who left the footprints may have been related to Homo antecessor, or "pioneer man," whose fossilized remains have been found in Spain.
That species died out about 800,000 years ago."
"Homo antecessor" were not "human beings".
They are thought to have possibly been our ancient ancestors in Europe similar, possibly related to, "homo erectus", "homo egaster" and/or "homo heidelbergensis".
Antecessor predates Neanderthals, and may-or-may-not be their, or our, direct ancestors.
These footprints add to Antecessor remains found at two sites in Spain, one in France and two others in England.
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posted on
02/08/2014 7:28:18 AM PST
by
BroJoeK
(a little historical perspective....)
To: blam
I just mopped that estuary darn it!
43
posted on
02/08/2014 8:06:58 AM PST
by
ElkGroveDan
(My tagline is in the shop.)
To: SunkenCiv
For the last time, this is all circumstantial evidence. You can’t prove it was I!
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posted on
02/08/2014 8:28:00 AM PST
by
Altariel
("Curse your sudden but inevitable betrayal!")
To: blam
Whoever it was 800kya, they certainly weren’t British! Also, at that time, the British Isles were not islands at all but still part of the mainland.
To: aMorePerfectUnion
Probably illegal aliens sneaking into the country.<
Ask Mad mo; he'll tell you they were "proto-Muslims".
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posted on
02/08/2014 12:36:33 PM PST
by
ApplegateRanch
(Love me, love my guns!©)
To: Altariel
The whorls will be a dead giveaway!
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posted on
02/08/2014 12:36:59 PM PST
by
SunkenCiv
(http://www.freerepublic.com/~mestamachine/)
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