This Probably Has Nothing To Do With UFOs, But…
Anything that appears to change our common view of history or science should be interesting to our readers. Since this finding (if confirmed) would change not just the history of the western hemisphere, but our opinion of man’s time on this planet, it is potentially important.
For the second time, an international team of scientists have announced that human footprints found in volcanic ash in Mexico are at least 40,000 years old. The first announcement was five years ago, but new a digital analysis has determined that the prints are most likely authentically human. The first estimate was that the prints were about 1.3 million years old. More accurate techniques still date the footprints to 26,000 years before the earliest humans are considered to have appeared in North and South America.
What does this say about our origins? Was homo sapiens already widely dispersed across the Earth even before the Neanderthals were completely extinct? Did humans develop independently in different areas of the globe? (Admittedly, this last question is the most controversial, and I don’t think that any scientist has seriously entertained the idea.)
Perhaps there is more to Charles Fort’s “Out Of Place Artifacts” than curious entries in old newspapers, magazines and books.
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Jun 05 2008 
June 5th, 2008 at 7:10 am
There was a theory several years ago about people from northern Australia getting to South America in small boats only to be killed or assimilated by people coming from the north at a much later date. I don’t know what became of this idea.
June 5th, 2008 at 8:21 am
What’s this have to do with UFO’s?
June 5th, 2008 at 8:47 am
Not a lot, but I agree with Greg, its
mighty interesting. One of the things
that I gleaned from reading the on-line
archives of Wm. Corliss’s Science
Frontiers newsletter was the slow
( and still incomplete ) collapse of
the “No Pre-Clovis Humans in the
Americas” pardigm. This is one more
nail in that coffin, and helps support
claims made for a series of fossils
and artifacts found in Northern Mexico
no too long ago. What it may say about
the dispersal of humanity over the
globe, well, still a lot of work to be
done there, and given the scarcity
of early humanity, its knowledge we
may never be certain of…
June 5th, 2008 at 9:25 am
“What’s this have to do with UFO’s?”
HaHa!
June 5th, 2008 at 10:19 am
It will be very interesting when the “Clovis-first” theory/dogma is finally overthrown by the mounting evidence that seems to prove man reached the “New World” many thousands of years before what was previosuly interpreted.
“New World” my foot!
June 5th, 2008 at 10:20 am
Mexico: The REAL craddle of civilization! (A huevo!! LOL)
June 5th, 2008 at 11:31 am
The article in the link also says that 44,000 year old remains have been found in Baja California: “a finding that bolsters the notion that people lived throughout the region about 40 millennia ago”.
What does this have to do with UFO’s - well if any happened to be passing, they would have been duly observed by these people 40,000 years ago. So the presence of people in Mexico 40,000 years ago probably means that UFO reports for the “New World” are older than we thought too! Maybe if these people left any cave or rock drawings we could know for sure.
P.S.
RPJ,I thought the cradle of civilisation was in that was in Peru (or maybe in tunnels underneath Peru/Ecuador).
June 5th, 2008 at 12:16 pm
Hey LLP, I’m sure my brother-in-law or my cousin’s wife would agree with you —He’s ecuadorian, she’s peruvian.
But you and I know better, right?
All jokes aside, I think you’re referring to the ruins found in Caral, Peru, that are supposedly 4500 years old or even older; so that would made those pyramids even older than the great pyramid at Giza. Also, there was another news about the oldest example of gold ornamentation, once again from Peru.
Who knows, maybe in Mexico there could be older examples of civilization, but you have to keep in mind that there are just so many archeological sites that the government can’t neither keep track of all of them, nor give them the propper economical support to preserve them; I aso get depressed when I think of all the many ruins that were probably destroyed in the southeast of Mexico in our craving for oil resources, the olmeca civlization is truly fascinating and full of mysteries.
So yes, looking all this in context, its almost as if was a simultaneous development of civilization in both parts of the world. Either that of we have to go back to that infamous “A” word (you all know which one) that’s anathema for any serious archeological researcher… for the moment
June 10th, 2008 at 9:54 pm
As a recent survivor of reading most of the Book of the Damned I can attest to Fort’s recording of footprints measured as 18 to 20 inches.
So I’m guess these were the tall, blonde, stud alien types. Probably, in lieu of Fort, with handle-bar mustaches.