December 02, 2005
Footprints in the Sand

BBCnews is reporting what was initially thought to be a stunning discovery of early man's move to the Americas may end up being just a bunch of chipped rock:

Impressions in volcanic ash hailed as footprints made by the earliest known human settlers in the Americas may not be what they seem, Nature journal says.

If confirmed, the 40,000-year-old marks would have debunked accepted theories of human migration into the Americas.

But the ash has now been dated to 1.3 million years ago - more than a million years before modern humans evolved.

There's a chance they might be hominid (H. erectus was wandering around Eurasia at this time), but the smart money is on some sort of mistaken identity.

Posted by scott at December 02, 2005 03:20 PM

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