Posted by:
SL Cabbie
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Date: February 08, 2014 04:17AM
Here's the BBC article with the claim "Earliest footprints outside Africa found in Norfolk."
I'm always skeptical of such extreme claims because they smack of somebody trying to make a name for themselves.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-26025763>"At first, we weren't sure what we were seeing," Dr Ashton told me, "but it was soon clear that the hollows resembled human footprints."
>The hollows were washed away not long after they were identified. The team were, however, able to capture the footprints on video that will be shown at an exhibition at London's Natural History Museum later this month.
So these alleged footprints persist for 800,000 years and are suddenly washed away?
BTW, the dating methods also appear questionable. Finally, I looked at the journal PLOS ONE, and their methods of publishing "scientific findings" appear problematic.
In this one, the speculation is that an early hominim, Homo antecessor. created the casts, but the evidence for H. antecessor (200,000 years early than some fossils found in Spain) are some "flint tools" that were found by the same archaeological team that discovered the alleged footprints.