Earliest footprints outside Africa discovered in Norfolk

[cronus]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-26025763

Earliest footprints outside Africa discovered in Norfolk

Scientists have discovered the earliest evidence of human footprints outside of Africa, on the Norfolk Coast in the East of England.

The footprints are more than 800,000 years old and were found on the shores of Happisburgh.

They are direct evidence of the earliest known humans in northern Europe.

Details of the extraordinary markings have been published in the science journal Plos One.

(continued, could be more recent, looks wet and new to me?)

[Clinton Huxley]

Someone has got to joke that the inhabitants of Norfolk haven't changed much in 800,000 years. Not me,though.

[laklak]

Turns out it was the vicar helping an old lady with a zimmer frame across the street.

[Clinton Huxley]

Made the mistake of reading the comments under the article on this in the Daily Fail. Must remember not to do that.

[cronus]

Did they really have DSLRs that far back in time?

[Clinton Huxley]

Did they really have DSLRs that far back in time?

Everyone takes photos of themselves on holiday...

[Mysturji]

A detailed analysis of these images by Dr Isabelle De Groote of Liverpool John Moores University confirmed that the hollows were indeed human footprints, possibly of five people, one adult male and some children.

I can hear Mrs. Grunt now: "OI! WIPE YOUR FEET!"

[laklak]

From Ratsep

[quote="x";p="1922118"]They could tell they weren't recent Norfolk footprints by the lack of knuckle marks. [/quote]

[Svartalf]

devolution at work?

[rainbow]

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/scien ... 14151.html


...walk upon England?

[JimC]

Jerusalem

And did those feet in ancient time
Walk upon England's mountains green?
And was the holy Lamb of God
On England's pleasant pastures seen?

And did the Countenance Divine
Shine forth upon our clouded hills?
And was Jerusalem builded here
Among these dark Satanic mills?

Bring me my bow of burning gold:
Bring me my arrows of desire:
Bring me my spear: O clouds unfold!
Bring me my chariot of fire.

I will not cease from mental fight,
Nor shall my sword sleep in my hand
Till we have built Jerusalem
In England's green and pleasant land.

[rainbow]

[HomerJay]

This story doesn't add up.

It seems very fortunate that they were discovered in just the right time frame, exposure to eradication.

Why were they not preserved? Is this a competency issue?

Also the story claims they are nearly 1 million years old but it makes no reference to the problem as to why God would put them there in the first place.

We know dinosaurs and early humans were contemporaneous so where are the dino prints?

Did God create them the day before they were discovered? How did He direct the archeologists to the correct spot?

Why would God create an ancient puzzle and what does this tell us about the mind of God?

Poor journalism misses all the interesting questions

[pErvinalia]

Indeed. And how did god fiddle with the data to make it seem like they were 1 million years old?

[FBM]

It is not ours to reason why.