The question of how old the human race is: seven thousand, two hundred thousand, two million or a billion is still open. There are several versions. Let's consider the main ones.
Young "homo sapiens" (200-340 thousand years)
If we talk about the species of homo sapiens, that is, "reasonable man", he is relatively young. Official science gives him about 200 thousand years. This conclusion was made on the basis of a study of mitochondrial DNA and the famous skulls from Ethiopia. The latter were found in 1997 during excavations near the Ethiopian village of Kherto. These were the remains of a man and a child, whose age was at least 160,000 years old. To date, these are the most ancient representatives of Homo sapiens known to us. Scholars dubbed them homo sapiens idaltu, or "oldest sane man."
Around the same time, maybe a little earlier (200 thousand years ago), all the same place in Africa lived the progenitor of all modern people- Mitrochondria Eve. Her mitochondria (a set of genes that is transmitted only through the female line) is present in every living person. However, this does not mean that she was the first woman on earth. Just in the course of evolution, it was her descendants who were most fortunate. By the way, “Adam”, whose Y-chromosome every man has today, is relatively younger than “Eve”. It is believed that he lived about 140 thousand years ago.
However, all these data are inaccurate and inconclusive. Science is based only on what it has, and more ancient representatives of homo sapiens have not yet been found. But the age of Adam has recently been revised, which can add another 140 thousand years to the age of mankind. A recent study of the genes of one African American, Albert Perry, and 11 other villagers in Cameroon showed that they have a more “ancient” Y chromosome, which was once passed on to his descendants by a man who lived about 340,000 years ago.
"Homo" - 2.5 million years
Homo sapiens is a young species, but the genus Homo itself, from which it comes, is much older. Not to mention their predecessors, the Australopithecus, who were the first to stand on both legs and start using fire. But if the latter still had too many features in common with monkeys, then the oldest representatives of the genus “Homo” - homo habilis (handy man) already looked like people.
Its representative, or rather its skull, was found in 1960 in the Olduvai Gorge in Tanzania, along with the bones of a saber-toothed tiger. Perhaps he fell prey to a predator. Then it was already established that the remains belonged to a teenager who lived about 2.5 million years ago. Its brain was more massive than that of typical Australopithecus, the pelvis allowed easy movement on two legs, and the legs themselves were only suitable for upright walking.
Subsequently, the sensational find was supplemented by at least sensational discovery- Homo habilis himself made tools for labor and hunting, carefully selecting materials for them, leaving them for long distances from parking lots. This was found out due to the fact that all his weapons were made of quartz, which was not near the places of residence of the first person. It was homo habilis who created the first - Olduvai archaeological culture, with which the era of the Paleolithic or Stone Age begins.
Scientific creationism (from 7500 years ago)
As you know, the theory of evolution is not considered fully proven. Its main competitor was and remains creationism, according to which both all life on Earth and the world as a whole were created by the Supreme Mind, the Creator or God. There is also scientific creationism, whose followers point to scientific confirmation of what is said in the Book of Genesis. They reject the long chain of evolution, arguing that there were no transitional links, all living forms on earth were created complete. And they lived together for a long time: people, dinosaurs, mammals. Until the flood, traces of which, according to them, we still meet today - this is a large canyon in America, dinosaur bones and other fossils.
Creationists do not have a single opinion on the age of mankind and the world, although they all in this matter are guided by the first three chapters of the first Book of Genesis. So-called "young earth creationism" takes them literally, insisting that the entire world was created by God in 6 days, about 7,500 years ago. Followers of "old-earth creationism" believe that God's work cannot be measured by human standards. Under one "day" of creation may be meant not a day at all, millions and even billions of years. Thus, the true age of the earth and humanity in particular is almost impossible to determine. Relatively speaking, this is a period from 4.6 billion years (when, according to the scientific version, the planet earth was born) to 7500 years ago.
When did civilization begin?
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The creations of human hands, immured in rocks, whose age is estimated at millions of years, were ignored until recently. And not just anyone, but the scientists themselves. After all, the finds violated the generally accepted fact of human evolution and even the formation of life on Earth. We have already reported on some of the findings. What artifacts are found in rocks, in which, according to the existing theory of the origin and development of man, there should be absolutely nothing?
Let's not talk about the numerous discovered stone tools that were produced at a time when, according to scientists, man did not exist. Let's think about more exotic finds. For example, in 1845, in one of the quarries in Scotland, a nail was found embedded in a block of limestone, and in 1891, an article appeared in one of the American newspapers about a gold chain about 25 cm long, which turned out to be walled up in a block of coal, not older than less than 260 million years.
Message about the extreme unusual find was published in scientific journal in 1852. It was about a mysterious vessel about 12 cm high, two halves of which were discovered after an explosion in one of the quarries. This vase, with clear images of flowers, was located inside a rock that is 600 million years old. In 1889, in the state of Idaho (USA), while drilling a well, from a depth of more than 90 m, a figure of a woman about 4 cm high was extracted. According to geologists, her age was at least 2 million years.
From anomalous finds in the 19th century, let's move on to reports of artifacts in times closer to us. In 1912, at one of the power plants in Oklahoma, when crushing a massive block of coal, the most ordinary iron mug fell out of it ... The fact that it was actually enclosed in coal was evidenced by the characteristic recesses remaining in the pieces of rock . It was possible to find out that the age of the coal delivered to the power plant was about 300 million years.
A unique find, again in the state of Oklahoma, was made in one of the coal mines in 1928. After blasting, a real wall was found in the mine face, made of perfectly smooth cubic concrete blocks. It is curious that the management of the mine immediately stopped the development of coal and forbade the miners to tell anyone about what they saw.
In 1968, the workers of the quarry of Saint-Jean-de-Livet (France) were quite surprised when they found semi-oval metal pipes of various sizes, clearly made by intelligent beings, inside a Cretaceous layer about 65 million years old. Quite recently, already in Russia, the most ordinary bolt was found in ancient rock, which hit the stone about 300 million years ago...
The last sensation among the anomalous finds can be considered the Chandar map, discovered in Bashkiria. The map is a stone slab with a relief image of the area from the Ufa Upland to the town of Meleuz. The map shows numerous channels, as well as dams and water intakes. It is curious that the slab with the map consists, as it were, of three layers: the first is the base and is a substance resembling cement, the other two layers of silicon and porcelain were clearly intended not only to better display the details of the relief, but also to preserve the entire image as a whole. There are no roads on the Chandar map, but there are unusual even geometrically regular areas resembling small airfields. The age of this unique find is striking: according to scientists, it is about 50 million years old. According to the Vice-Rector of the Bashkir University A.N. Chuvyrov, aliens from outer space, who in ancient times were going to inhabit our planet, could make a map.
So, we moved on to the question of the authorship of numerous anomalous finds. Perhaps the easiest way, and even more profitable for scientists, is to blame everything on the unfortunate humanoids. Here they lost a bolt, then a mug, and in Bashkiria they dropped a map weighing one ton ... What we now find in the bowels of the Earth, all these are tricks of aliens ... Only here are the scales of these "tricks", and their geography are impressive: it begins to seem that once upon a time our Earth was simply inhabited by aliens ... Then, maybe we ourselves are also aliens? ..
A much more serious hypothesis explaining the anomalous finds in rocks is the assumption of the existence on Earth in the distant past of a proto-civilization that reached high development and perished in global catastrophe. This hypothesis irritates scientists most of all, because it breaks a more or less harmonious concept of not only the emergence and development of mankind, but also the formation of life on Earth in general.
Well, let's say people existed millions of years ago and even ran a race with dinosaurs, then there should be some fossilized bones left from them? That's just the point, that remained! In 1850, in Italy, in rocks 4 million years old, a skeleton was discovered that, in its structure, is quite consistent with modern man. And in California, in gold-bearing gravel, at least 9 million years old, human remains were also found.
These finds were not isolated, but just like all those found in very ancient rocks, human remains knocked the ground out from under the feet of conservative scientists: anomalous bones were either hidden in storerooms or declared fake. In the end, it turns out that scientists have at their disposal not only anomalous artifacts, but also very ancient human remains that do not fit into any chronological framework supposed human evolution.
What to do with all this?
Of course, somehow systematize and link them together. But for this you really need brave people. The real revolutionaries will be those who dare to revise the history of development intelligent life on the ground. It is possible that, in addition to the scientific community, government officials and even special services will put pressure on them. We, on the other hand, do not like panic to the extreme, and evidence of a catastrophe in which a similar to us, or maybe a more powerful civilization perished, may seem superfluous to someone.
As for the special services, remember the mine, which was closed in the state of Oklohoma after a concrete wall was found among the coal. Who knows, maybe somewhere there is already a secret mine, where, under the heavy protection of the military in the bowels of the Earth, the real development of priceless artifacts of a lost civilization is going on...
After the recent sensational report about the discovery of a 300-million-year-old bolt in the Karelian swamps, it is appropriate to recall that such finds have confused the minds of scientists before. The most interesting of them was made in 1961 in California (USA). The three friends—Mike Makesell, Wallace Lane, and Virginia Mexey—often made trips to the Mount Coso area to look for beautiful ornamental stones, which they then sold in their souvenir shop. Of particular interest to friends were geodes - mineral formations of a spherical shape, in the internal voids of which one came across intergrowths of rare beauty crystals of rock crystal or amethyst. Stone lovers are also looking for similar geodes in Rusavkin near Moscow, where sometimes they come across good brushes of amethyst crystals.
Usually, professional mineral hunters do not break geodes at the find site (the crystals inside can be severely damaged), but open them with a diamond saw. So, near Owens Lake, near Mount Koso, Mike found a geode covered with bark from petrified turtles, and his friends took it with them to saw it at home. When Meixell began sawing his find, it became clear that this time he would have to forget about the crystals - there was no void inside the geode. Instead, there was some strange substance, something like ceramics. In the center of this ceramic mass, a cut of a metal bar with a diameter of 2 mm from white metal.
“In the section, the geode had the following appearance: under the ball of turtles there was a small prism with a regular hexagonal base, 32 mm in diameter, made of soft and fragile material; it contains a copper spiral, which, most likely, ran along the entire length of the prism and was partially corroded; the spiral, in turn, covered an extremely hard ceramic rod with a diameter of 18 mm, through which a metal rod with a diameter of 2 mm passed, ”such a description of this find is given in the book“ Riddles of Antiquity ”by G.E. Burgansky and R.S. Furdui.
Of course, the unique find was X-rayed and found out that in its structure it most of all resembles ... an automobile spark plug, although, as experts have established, not a single plant in the entire history of mankind has produced such a spark plug. Geologists, in turn, based on petrified turtles, determined the age of this unique find - at least 500 thousand years...
How can you explain the existence of a bolt and a spark plug of incredibly ancient age? (Source)
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The presence of various artifacts of this age is explained very simply, if you know and understand that humanity is NOT alone in the Universe! Then everything falls into place. Artifacts could appear in several ways:
1. They could have been left and left by expeditions, which probably flew to our planet more than once at different times.
2. They could be left and left by people who lived on this planet in another, more early civilization, or civilizations that for some reason disappeared or left the planet.
3. There may be other, more exotic reasons, which you can come up with quite a lot, but the essence of this will not change ...
Almost every one of us at least once heard about UFOs, but not everyone knows about such a category as unidentified fossil facts (artifacts). They are found at the great depths of the cultural layers of the earth. Artifacts manifest themselves at those levels at which, according to today's ideas, not only people, but even primates should not.
answering the question "how old is mankind?", school textbooks confidently wrote that he was forty thousand years old, but the first human-like creatures appeared more than two million years ago. Such figures were obtained by scientists in 1967. However, over time, various evidence began to appear that the age of mankind should be calculated in millions of years. For example, in California, at a depth of seven meters, a site of prehistoric people was discovered. Traces of fire and parts of stone, crude tools were examined. The result amazed the expedition: the age of the site was determined to be 200,000 years.
Then the scientist L. Leakey discovered the skull of a zijanthrope and various stone tools, the analysis of which indicated that their age was more than two million years. I was looking for an answer to the question "how old is humanity?" another expedition. Its participants were lucky to find artifacts in Ethiopia that allow us to conclude that this age can be safely pushed back by 4,000,000 years.
If we delve deeper into the problem, it becomes clear that the development of mankind belongs to an even earlier period. So, for example, in Kenya, a jaw bone was found that belonged to our distant ancestor, who lived 13 million years ago! The facts obtained tell us about individuals. However, there are data that relate to entire individual civilizations. They eloquently indicate that they have a much more significant age than previously thought.
Near Mexico City is located exploring which, scientists decided to guess how old humanity is. In ancient times, its predominant
Part was filled with lava erupted from a volcanic crater. As it turned out later, it was created in five million years, although it was believed that there were no civilizations at all in this region at that time. As we can see, this is direct evidence of the presence of organized life. With the help of various modern measurements, it was determined that a person left this building as early as 2160 BC.
It is also interesting that a date relating to 12,042 BC was carved on one of the walls in Central Africa. In addition, records of later dates were found. Excavations prove that there were also advanced civilizations, for example, where Peru is now located, bas-reliefs with strange creatures depicted on them were found. According to experts, this civilization existed 20,000 years before our era. And how much information has been published about the mysterious Hyperborea, the mainland Arctida, our Aryan ancestors, who lived, according to our contemporaries, 18 million years ago!
Unfortunately, modern science takes into account only documentary evidence that answers the question of how old humanity is. But besides them, there are non-traditional, hard-to-explain sources (ancient manuscripts, legends, maps of continents from the 15th century, unexpected finds in recently inaccessible places). These evidence and facts also allow us to establish the true age of mankind. As you can see, the Earth is reluctant to part with its secrets.
For more than a century, scientists have been tormented by the question of how old humanity is on Earth? At different times, religions, science, philosophy tried to answer it. So, even in the most ancient religions there were necessarily myths about the creation of people by gods. And often even the specific dates of this event were called.
Tribe of Israel
Christianity gives a fairly accurate answer to the question of how old humanity is. According to the Bible, the first people were Adam and Eve, created in the image and likeness of God.
It is curious that Christians were not the first in this field. Almost all the stories included in the Old Testament are a retelling of ancient Shemite myths. And the Jewish Torah, unlike the Vatican, does not hide the true age of the creator's favorite offspring: about 7,000 years. 70 centuries to develop from a carefree life in the Garden of Eden and the invention of the plow to the first atomic bomb and space satellites connections.
From Rurik to Peter the Great
It is not necessary to open the Bible to find answers to eternal questions. We are all accustomed, speaking about Russian or world history, to use the terms "Christmas" or "our era". 221 years before Christ, 988 AD... However, this chronology was adopted by the standards of the planet quite recently. Only in the 4th c. The Roman Empire officially switched to a new calendar tied to the birth of a new Messiah - Jesus. Russia made this transition only in 1701, by order of Peter the Great. How were the dates before these events marked? Let's open the most famous chronicle Ancient Russia- "The Tale of Bygone Years".
The date given here is striking: 6370s. According to the Christian calendar, this is 861. There is something to think about. Our ancestors counted time from a point remote from our days by more than 7 and a half thousand years. This is the time of occurrence ancient civilizations. More precisely, this is the period about which we have the first more or less reliable information. Meanwhile, the dates on ancient manuscripts indicate that already at that time the Slavs had a level of development high enough to understand the need to number the years and store information about them.
Evolution to replace the divine will
Religion has long been one of the main sources of human knowledge about the world. Everything was explained by divine intervention: from natural Disasters and annual agricultural cycles until the victory of Athens over the Persians at the battle of Salamis. However, over time, the forces of religion became insufficient to explain all the mysteries of the world. How many years humanity lives, but still it always strives to know more than is known now, to open new horizons. In the Middle Ages, this desire for knowledge manifested itself in a fierce struggle between the emerging sciences and the Christian church. Copernicus, Galileo, Giordano Bruno - without these names there would be no modern astronomy, physics, chemistry and geology.
The mystery of the origin of man was considered one of the most burning for researchers around the world. For many centuries, it never occurred to anyone in the Christian world to challenge the version of the creation of Adam and Eve. However, in the 19th century, an enlightened society was literally blown up by the scandalous book of the English naturalist Charles Darwin.
His "Origin of Species" made us look at the question of how many years humanity has existed from a completely different angle, and forever separated believers and materialists into warring camps. So, Darwin compared in his work several tens of thousands of species of animals, plants and birds. He managed to prove that the similarities and differences of living beings in different parts of the Earth are associated with natural selection, during which the individuals most adapted to the conditions survived from century to century. He created the theory of evolution. And he smashed the statement of the Old Testament about 7000 years of the existence of the world and mankind to smithereens. Natural selection, in his opinion, takes hundreds of thousands of years, which means that the information in the Bible is fundamentally wrong.
monkey relatives
In 1974, archaeologist Yohannas, during excavations in Ethiopia, discovered fragments of a skeleton that could well have belonged to an ancient ancestor. modern man. The skull, several ribs and vertebrae had a clear resemblance to human ones, but their owner was clearly at a lower stage of development than the modern inhabitants of the Earth. The scientists named their exhibit Lucy. Studies have shown that the age of this find is approximately 3.5 million years! Thus, the age of the mythical Eve increased by 500 times.
The species found in Africa was named Australopithecus, which means " southern man". For a long time it was believed that it was he who was the most ancient among the ancestors of man. However, in 2000, an even more shocking discovery followed. In the African state of Chad, a skull of a humanoid teenager was discovered, whose age was almost 8 million years. This species - Sahelanthropus - further complicated the debate about how old humanity is. If we accept the reality of the existence of a Chadian boy as true, then the origin of the drawings on the rocks depicting mammoths and smilodons, ancient saber-toothed tigers, becomes clear. Mankind really lived next to these giants. And it turned out to be powerful enough to win the competition for the survival of the species.
Club and stone or plow and sword?
The dispute about how old humanity is has divided the scientific world into several irreconcilable camps. Among them, two stand out, which converge in the idea of the evolution of our species, but diverge in the definition of a starting point. If you count the age human race from the moment when the ancient monkeys first descended from the trees and picked up a stick and a stone, the date is one. If we take the appearance of a “reasonable person” as the moment of the emergence of our history, then the total number decreases by a couple of hundred times. In this case, it does not matter how many years humanity lives on earth, it is important when it moved to the active arrangement of its world.
The first man of the modern type, who has the same as ours, and a skeleton, who knows how to make fire and uses tools familiar to us, was discovered in France, not far from the village of Cro-Magnon. The age of this find is 40,000 years. The Cro-Magnons sewed clothes from animal skins, made needles, spears and knives from stone, had a fairly developed ability to paint and believed in afterworld. It was with the emergence of this species that the Paleolithic, that is, the ancient Stone Age, began.
Joke of nature
Supporters of the anomalous theory of the appearance of man claim that the age of our species is about 15 million years. It was at this time that there was a sharp jump in the evolution of many species of the animal world. According to enthusiasts, the reason was a change in the radioactivity of the sun or the destruction earth's crust over uranium deposits. As a result of this catastrophe, the ancient inhabitants of the planet received a radiation injury, which pushed evolution along the path of development of bipedalism and intelligence in monkeys. To the deep regret of fans of this hypothesis, it does not withstand any scientific verification.
Children of another star
There is another theory that is condemned modern history and archeology, but which, nevertheless, can give a good answer to the question of how old humanity is. It is called paleovisit and comes from two Latin words: “paleo” - “ancient” and “visit” - “coming”, “arrival”. According to her, people are the descendants of aliens from another planet who arrived on Earth in ancient times. This idea was suggested by scientists on the hieroglyphs on the walls of ancient temples, in which, if desired, you can see quite modern helicopters and spaceships.
There are many variations of alien anthropogenesis. Starting from the idea that we are all descendants of shipwrecked space pilots, to the theory of life-forming radiation that comes from outer space and makes life develop on young planets according to a strictly defined scenario. If we take the latter idea as a hypothesis, then the age of the human race may exceed hundreds of millions of years.
What does the unofficial science say?
Not all available archaeological discoveries appear in school textbooks. Some finds are so shocking that the leaders scientific world prefer to consign them to oblivion so as not to destroy the entire modern picture of the world. And, nevertheless, some archaeologists argue that the age of mankind is incommensurably greater than not only the 7 millennia indicated in the Torah, but also the official date of the appearance of the Cro-Magnon man. 40,000 years, they argue, is only a part of the life of the humanoid race, and the part is not the largest. So, excavations South America gave science several unique finds. Diorite jugs from the extinct city of the Olmec Indians are one of them. Radiocarbon analysis showed that the age of these stone vessels is about half a million years. However, the material from which they are made is considered one of the most durable on Earth, and even modern technology can hardly cope with its processing. Really 500 thousand years ago the Indians were already so developed that they mastered this difficult task?! It's hard to believe this, especially when looking at the Indian villages lost in the jungle, some of which, such as the Yanomami, are still at the level of the late Stone Age. However, you can't argue with the fact. And then, after all, the Maya Indians were able to create star maps 5 thousand years ago without electronic telescopes.
Eternal riddle
So, how old is the history of mankind? real history, and not the one from which, as Kozma Prutkov aptly said, you cannot remove all the lies, otherwise there will be nothing left at all. Maybe 40 thousand. Maybe 8 million. It is quite possible that more. I would like to believe that our descendants will finally be able to answer this age-old question.
Humanity is hundreds of millions of years old
Homo sapiens appeared on our planet about forty thousand years ago. For a long time, scientific circles thought that way. Research recent decades dropped this milestone to the mark of two hundred thousand years. But this was not the limit. Multiple incredible finds make you think. Judging by them, humans and dinosaurs lived at the same time. In Turkey, Central America, Africa at different times, archaeologists have found traces of human feet, which are several million years old.
It is clear that the scientific community reacted to the findings quite nervously, each time declaring the next discovery either a fake, or simply did not pay attention to such facts. But when the number of finds exceeded dozens, it was time to think.
Came, saw, inherited
Some of the representatives of science began to talk about the fact that the age of the human race can be revised. And really, how can you declare a fake the prints of bare feet found near the American city of Glen Rose.
The fact is that the traces were found at a depth of more than four meters, and the excavations were carried out using earth-moving equipment: excavators, graders, etc. Imagine pranksters who brought powerful equipment to the future excavation site, dug up everything in the area, reached the on which the prints were preserved, they hollowed out the traces, buried all this mess and quietly left the place of entertainment. Imperceptibly, because none of the local residents noticed any such activity.
There is an opinion
Young Earth Creationists claim that our world was created by God in six days, approximately seven and a half thousand years ago.
So: about a hundred million years BC, a dinosaur stomped here. A well-preserved chain of his footprints was left on the soft silt. The silt then hardened and turned into limestone. But next to the dinosaur footprints, another string of human footprints was discovered. Our distant ancestor - fled. Whether from a dinosaur, or from someone else, but it was clear, since there were fourteen prints.
There is an opinion
Proponents of "old earth creationism" claim that God's work cannot be measured by human standards. One day of creation can equal millions or billions of years. Therefore, the true age of mankind cannot be determined.
The fact that they were trodden at the same time is proved by the fact that the tracks overlapped each other. An analysis of the prints, which was carried out at the suggestion of the paleontologist S. Taylor (he discovered them), showed that the find is one hundred million years old, plus or minus several millennia. But this is no longer important.
Very inconvenient facts that science has to hush up
How to explain such a discovery? Here are the prints, here are the data from the analysis of the prints, here are the photographs from the excavation site, eyewitness accounts and much more. To declare once again a fake - it does not work.
Therefore, scientists who spent decades of their lives substantiating the theory of the origin of man and dated this event two hundred millennia, or even less, were at a loss.
There is an opinion
Followers of the anomalous theory say that the age of mankind is 15 million years (give or take). It was during this period that there was a sharp jump in the evolution of many animal species. The reason, according to supporters of the theory, was a change in the radioactivity of the sun. As a result of this, the inhabitants of the planet received a radiation injury, which pushed evolution along the path of development.
A career collapsed, and most importantly, a life was wasted on proving a theory that turned out to be false. Therefore, many have found a simple way out, they simply began to ignore such facts.
Age of mankind on earth
Meanwhile, there were more and more discoveries. Another fossil was discovered in Nevada. Age two hundred million years. Nobody disputed this date, since the Rockefeller Institute conducted a microscopic analysis of the print left in those distant days. The fact that caused even more commotion was that it was not a bare footprint, but a shoeprint. Of course, they tried to convince the author of the discovery, geologist D. Reid, that the footprint from the shoe is not what he thinks, but just a “game of nature”.
There is an opinion
Homo sapiens species (reasonable man) is quite young. Official science claims that he is about 200 thousand years old. This conclusion was made after analyzing known skulls from Ethiopia and mitochondrial DNA.
The next discovery is some fifteen million years old. Back in Nevada in the coal seams. And again the footprint. Here, a police expert gave his opinion: “The imprint of the right foot, the standard size is 13th, the stitching on the sole is double, even traces of stitches are preserved on the print.”
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The year 1968 was marked by another discovery in Utah. Another boot mark. This time, all doubts that this was a trace, and not the quirks of nature, were swept aside. A man crushed a trilobite, its remains stuck to the sole and petrified with a footprint. The trilobite was easily identified. Experts' conclusion: "This species became extinct 280 million years ago." The discovery was chalked up by paleontologist W. Meister. 1983 year of the last century.
Homo Sapiens footprint discovered in Turkmenistan. The rock that holds this impression is 150 million years old. 1987 year.
New Mexico. Paleontologist D. McDonald found a trace of a human foot in a rock that belongs to the Permian period. And this is almost 250 million years.
And now the million dollar question, who inherited?
There are many opinions on this matter, there are three main hypotheses.
Representatives of another civilization who colonized our planet hundreds of millions of years ago, the terrestrial disappeared civilization or time travelers, decided to hunt dinosaurs.
Who knows?
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