December 31, 2005

Ancient footprints Down Under

HUNDREDS of human footprints dating back to about 20,000BC - the oldest in Australia and the largest collection of its kind in the world - have been discovered in Mungo National Park in western NSW.

They were left by children, adolescents and adults at the height of the last ice age as they ran and walked across a moist clay area near the Willandra Lakes.

Some people appear to have been hunting, with one very tall man sprinting at about 20kmh.

Full story here.

Posted by David on December 31, 2005 2:38 PM

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Those prints look very much one in front of another, almost as if the person were trying to walk (run?) a straight line.

Two metres tall--that would have been a giant at that time. Was he being chased? Maybe he was an alien, accompanied, followed by, following after, humans or proto-humans.

I don't know anything, of course. Just fantasizing.

Posted by: Rhubarb on December 31, 2005 9:22 PM

Had the giant kangaroos been exterminated by that time? If not, perhaps he was running away from one?

Posted by: dearieme on January 4, 2006 11:27 PM
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