40,000 year old human footprints in Mexico

[Rigorous Intuition]

(Found this of particular interest because, in <!--EZCODE ITALIC START--><em>Sinister Forces</em><!--EZCODE ITALIC END-->, Peter Levenda spends some time on the "anomolies" of American prehistory, and the diffusionist theory that rejects the single, late-ice age migration across the land bridge.)<br><br><!--EZCODE BOLD START--><strong>British scientists unearth 40,000 year-old human footprints in central Mexico</strong><!--EZCODE BOLD END--><br><br>July 4<br><br>LONDON (AP) - British scientists claimed Tuesday to have unearthed 40,000 year-old human footprints in central Mexico, challenging previous studies that put the arrival of the first humans in the Americas at about 13,500 years ago. <br><br>Scientists Silvia Gonzalez, from Liverpool John Moores University, and Matthew Bennett, of Bournemouth University, found the footprints in an abandoned quarry close to the Cerro Toluquilla volcano in the Valsequillo basin, near Puebla, south of Mexico City in 2003. <br><br>Gonzalez said the footprints were preserved as trace fossils in volcanic ash along what was the shoreline of an ancient volcanic lake. <br><br>...<br><br>"The existence of 40,000 year-old human footprints in Mexico means that the Clovis First model of human occupation can no longer be accepted as the first evidence of human presence in the Americas," said David Huddart, a professor at Liverpool John Moores University, and a collaborator on the discovery. <br><br>Gonzalez said the findings supported a theory that the first colonies may have arrived by water, using the Pacific coast migration route, rather than by foot. <br><br>"We think there were several migration waves into the Americas at different times by different human groups," she said. <br><br><!--EZCODE LINK START--><a href="http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/Science/2005/07/04/1117154-ap.html" target="top">cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/Science/2005/07/04/1117154-ap.html</a><!--EZCODE LINK END--><br><br><!--EZCODE LINK START--><a href="http://www.mexicanfootprints.co.uk" target="top">mexicanfootprints.co.uk</a><!--EZCODE LINK END--> <p></p><i></i>

[wolf pauli]

<!--EZCODE AUTOLINK START--><a href="http://www.sciencedaily.com/print.php?url=/releases/2004/11/041118104010.htm">www.sciencedaily.com/prin...104010.htm</a><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK END--><br><br>New Evidence Puts Man In North America 50,000 Years Ago<br><br>"Radiocarbon tests of carbonized plant remains where artifacts were unearthed last May along the Savannah River in Allendale County by University of South Carolina archaeologist Dr. Albert Goodyear indicate that the sediments containing these artifacts are at least 50,000 years old ..."<br><br>Another account, including some skeptical reactions:<br><br><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK START--><a href="http://greenvilleonline.com/news/2004/11/17/2004111753305.htm">greenvilleonline.com/news...753305.htm</a><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK END--><br> <p></p><i></i>