Quote:Footprint find on Crete may push back date humans began to walk upright

HUMAN-like footprints have been found on an ancient sea shore. They shouldn’t be there. They’re in the wrong place at the wrong time.

Quote: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.

That’s a time when palaeontologists believe our human ancestors had only apelike feet.
And they lived in Africa.

But a study into the Trachilos, western Crete, prints determines them to feature prominent human features and an upright stance.
And that’s significant as the human foot has a unique shape. It combines a long sole, five short toes, no claws — and a big toe.

In comparison, the foot of a Great Ape look much more like a human hand.
And that step in evolution wasn’t believed to have taken place until some 4 million years ago.

Quote:[/url][url=http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S001678781730113X]Published in the latest edition of Proceedings of the Geologists’ Association, the study’s conclusions are bound to raise eyebrows in the human evolution community.


“The interpretation of these footprints is potentially controversial,” the study’s abstract admits.

“The print morphology suggests that the trackmaker was a basal member of the clade Hominini (human ancestral tree), but as Crete is some distance outside the known geographical range of pre-Pleistocene (2.5 million to 11,700 years ago) hominins we must also entertain the possibility that they represent a hitherto unknown late Miocene primate that convergently evolved human-like foot anatomy.”

Put simply, the study argues there was another — previously unidentified — human-like creature walking the Earth long before we believed it was possible.

Quote:The 260 - 600 million years old Human Shoe Print of Utah - Before Animals Existed

Quote:William J. Meister, an American who was an avid amateur fossil collector, made an astounding find on June 1, 1968. In Antelope Springs, about 43 miles northwest of Delta, Utah, in a fossil rich site, Meister found a large piece of rock with a human footprint. 


The footprint however, appears to be made by a sandal. The sandal measured 10 inches (or approximately 26 cm) in length, with the sole showing a width of 3 inches (or 8.9 cm) and the heel a width of 3 inches (or 7.6 cm). The heel appeared to be approximately 1/8 of an inch thick (or 1.7 cm). Amazingly, he also found trilobites right in the footprint.

Quote:Please note that trilobites were small marine creatures that existed between 260 and 600 million years ago, which is an indication that this discovery was of value with respect to the prehistoric origins of human life. This finding may very well disprove the evolutionary theory that is prevalent today.

Comparing this find with today's footwear we can conceptualize a certain degree of sophistication in a civilization that may have existed as long as 600 million years ago.

Quote:The 280 Million Years Old Human 'Coal Skull'

Quote:One of the most recent, and best validated, case was that of Mr. Ed Conrad's skull in coal. In 1981, Mr. Ed Conrad of Shenandoah, discovered a large object between anthracite veins, which bore a dramatic resemblance to a large anthropoid skull.
He arranged a meeting with the Smithsonian during which their specialist merely looked at it, and without any scientific testing at all, declared it a "concretion"- despite the fact that the the only authoritative manner of determining whether an object is bone is by examining its cellular structure.

Quote:Later, Mr. Conrad dug into the skull, and found a sizeable cavity inside the "jaw". After that portion was broken off, he discovered that the interior contained a pair of hardened inclusions on what resembled a dental arch.
Mr. Conrad took a photo and forwarded it to Wilton Krogman, author of "The Human Skeleton in Forensic Medicine" and one of the world's foremost human comparative anatomists. Krogman excitedly identified it as a premolar tooth, explaining that he could easily see that it possesses a pair of cusps.


Further, on this and another specimen he found, he removed some granules from the rind of the object. Why? Bone contains minuscule Haversian canals and their presence is the conclusive evidence of bone, even if the bone had petrified.

This scientific fact appears in the book, "Science in Archaeology," which states that neither age nor the petrification process can remove what are known as Haversian canals, an integral part of the cell structure of bone.

Quote:The Human & Dinosaur Footprints of Texas

Quote:"In our other section "Dinosaurs", we presented the interesting evidence that primitive man correctly knew what dinosaurs looked like (cave paintings) and even their behavior. Combine with the below information regarding some dinosaur and human footprints that were found together and it certainly casts doubt on the official scientific theory that man and dinosaur did not ever coexist.

Glen Rose, TX

On the banks of the Paluxy River, in Glen Rose TX, a flood exposed rock with thousands of footprints- both dinosaur and human together, aside, and overlapping.

The following texts and pics are courtesy of the University of Vienna, on the Paluxy River (in Glen Rose, Texas) footprints:

Quote:"The Paluxy River runs through Glen Rose, Texas. At the bottom of this river, there are thousands of layers of limestone. There was a bad flood in 1908 that ripped off 2 feet of solid rock. This rock was carried 20 miles downstream. This exposed thousands of dinosaur footprints. There were so many footprints that they decided to make the area into a State Park (Dinosaur Valley State Park). Many of the footprints were put into museums in order to be preserved, but there are still many there today.

Many human footprints were also found. Sometimes the human tracks were next to the dinosaur tracks. Several human footprints were found inside of the dinosaur footprints and some dinosaur footprints were found on top of the human footprints. The human strides were perfect.

Quote:The 205 - 250 Million Years Old Human Shoe Print of Nevada - Triassic Period

Quote:On October 8, 1922, the American Weekly section of the New York Sunday American ran a prominent feature titled "Mystery of the Petrified 'Shoe Sole,' by Dr. W. H. Ballou. Ballou wrote:

'Some time ago, while he was prospecting for fossils in Nevada, John T. Reid, a distinguished mining engineer and geologist, stopped suddenly and looked down in utter bewilderment and amazement at a rock near his feet. For there, a part of the rock itself, was what seemed to be a human footprint! Closer inspection showed that it was not a mark of a naked foot, but was, apparently, a shoe sole which had been turned into stone. 

The forepart was missing. But there was the outline of at least two-thirds of it, and around this outline ran a well-defined sewn thread which had, it appeared, attached the welt to the sole.
Further on was another line of sewing, and in the center, where the foot would have rested had the object really been a shoe sole, there was an indentation, exactly such as would have been made by the bone of the heel rubbing upon and wearing down the material of which the sole had been made.

Thus was found a fossil which is the foremost mystery of science today. For the rock in which it was found is at least 5 million years old.'

The print was inspected by geologists and admitted that the print is authentic and the rock is from the Triasic Period (205 - 250 million years ago). The threads of the print have been examined under a microscope and the twisted threads are visible."

Quote:The 145 - 195 Million Years Old Footprints of Turkmenistan - Jurassic Period

Quote:"Reports of human footprints alongside dinosaur footprints found in Turkmenistan are made in Russian papers in the early 1980s. Because Turkmenistan was part of the Soviet Union at the time the reports were controlled by the government. Once Turkmenistan became an independent nation Turkmenistan scientists began researching the prints.

They discovered that some of the footprints found in rocks of the Jurassic Period were human in origin. They invited Dr. Dennis Swift from the US to investigate the prints. Dr. Swift also concluded that the prints were human. In addition, many goat tracks, made from goats still existing in the area, were also found in the same Jurassic rock formations."


The Jurassic period was approximately 195 to 145 million years ago. Obviously, there should be neither goat or human tracks from this period.

Quote:The 3 to 4 Million Years Old 'Castenedolo Skull' of Italy

Quote:
"This anatomically modern human skull (Sergi 1884, plate 1) was found in 1880 at Castenedolo, Italy. The stratum from which it was taken is assigned to the Astian stage of the Pliocene (Oakley 1980, p. 46). According to modern authorities (Harland et al, 1982, p. 110), the Astian belongs to the Middle Pliocene, wihch would give the skull an age of 3-4 million years."

Quote:Amazing Evidence: The Human Species is Hundreds of Millions of Years Old!