Human Footprints Found In 5.7 Million Year Old Rock

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HUMAN-like footprints have been found stamped into an ancient sea shore fossilised beneath the Mediterranean island of Crete.

They shouldn’t be there.

Testing puts the rock’s age at 5.7 million years.

Those pesky time travelers have done it again!

Comparison of Trachilos footprint with bears (top), non-hominin primates (middle), and hominins (bottom). (a) Brown bear (b) Grizzly bear (c) Vervet monkey (d) Lowland gorilla (e) chimpanzee. (f) modern human (g) Trachilos footprint (h) modern human foot (i) Archaic Homo footprint. Pictures: Gerard D. Gierliński et al / ElsevierSource:Supplied

http://www.news.com.au/technology/s...t/news-story/2e60cbd7386573dd2a45c5cc9d79297d

 

[Arctic Fire]

Paging Michael Cremo...

 

[Thoushant]

It's so interesting to consider the sheer size of the big toe area, what are the implication for their movement and posture. Maybe a lot of current postural problems is neuromuscular fall back to early upright spine adaptations