Re: 40,000 year old human footprints in Mexico get a boost

michaelruggeri@xxxxxxx wrote, 01/06/2008 03:53:
Listeros,

The claimed 40,000 year old human footprints found in Mexico a few
years back have been resurrected. In Science News, it is reported at
the American Geophysical Union meeting that 3 dimensional laser scans
of the prints confirm their human origins.

Science News has the story and a photo here;
http://www.sciencenews.org/view/generic/id/32728/title/Footprints_in_the_ash

and a tiny URL;
http://tinyurl.com/44pszl

Needless to say, this will generate plenty of controversy,

I don't understand how a laserscan can confirm that
it is human. And to me the result of the scan looks
less like a footprint than the original.

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p.a.
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