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Footprints in Time
They found some footprints in the New Mexican desert that place the peopling of Americas at 21,000 - 23,000 years ago, which is a good five or six thousand years before previously accepted dates.
The Laetoli Footprints discovered by Mary Leakey in Tanzania are 3.6 million years old. They are believed to have been made by Australopithecus afarensis, a human relative, if not our direct ancestor. It took a long time for two legs to get from Africa to the Americas, the whole way without shoes.
The world was once a much bigger place. With our technology, in an historical blink of an eye, we’ve made it a rather small rock. We no longer leave just footprints, but completely altered ecological systems.
History is long, life is short.
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