Oldest Human Footprints (outside of Africa)

[3113]

Now here's a lovely story idea. From here:

The oldest human footprints ever found outside Africa, dated at between 850,000 and 950,000 years old, have been discovered on the storm-lashed beach at Happisburgh in Norfolk, one of the fastest eroding stretches of the British coast. Within a fortnight the sea tides that exposed the prints last May destroyed them, leaving only casts and 3D images made through photogrammetry – by stitching together hundreds of photographs – as evidence that a little group from a long-extinct early human species had passed that way.

A story in the sand...

 

[Evilwriter]

Fascinating...

I hadn't thought human arrived in Europe until some 500,000 years later.

 

[Handley_Page]

I hadn't thought human arrived in Europe until some 500,000 years later.

There were humans before the exodus from Africa, and that was about 125,000 years ago.

 

[oggbashan]

I hadn't thought human arrived in Europe until some 500,000 years later.

They weren't homo sapiens but a predecessor. But they take humaniods in Europe hundreds of thousands of years further back than previously thought.

 

[StrangeLife]

...at Happisburgh in Norfolk, one of the fastest eroding stretches of the British coast...

In other words, the people of Britain could be an entirely different species than the rest of us. That explains a lot... http://s7.postimg.org/f6c32kqt3/60_52014.gif

 

[Handley_Page]

In other words, the people of Britain could be an entirely different species than the rest of us. That explains a lot... http://s7.postimg.org/f6c32kqt3/60_52014.gif

Nothing new there, then

 

[ProxyAccount]

Fossil From Last Common Ancestor Of Neanderthals And Humans Found In Europe, 1.2 Million Years Old
Date: April 4, 2008
Source: University of Michigan
Summary: Archaeologists have discovered the oldest known remains of human ancestors in Western Europe. The fossil is about 1.2 million years old. That's 500,000 years older than the previous oldest known humanlike fossils from the area. The new find bolsters the view that Homo reached Europe not long after leaving Africa almost 2 million years ago.

 

[StrangeLife]

00 years older than the previous oldest known humanlike fossils from the area. The new find bolsters the view that Homo reached Europe not long after leaving Africa almost 2 million years ago.

In other words, anybody assuming that the gay lifestyle is a recent development better think again. There were homos in Europe 2 million years ago! So there!