Thursday, 28 November 2024

Ancient footprints show how early human species lived side by side

 


Image courtesy of Neil T. Roach

Joel Kontinen

Footprints preserved on the shore of Lake Turkana in Kenya seem to be from two ancient human species, showing they lived there at the same time about 1.5 million years ago.

Evolutionist believe that ancient man did  not come from a single species but was we came from ape like creatures and that different species of humans walked side by side.  

Preserved footprints in Kenya appear to record two different species of ancient humans walking over the same muddy lakeshore, probably within days of each other. It is one of the most dramatic demonstrations ever found that the world was once home to multiple hominin species living side by side.

“It’s really exceptional that we find this evidence for two different species walking across that surface,” says Kevin Hatala at Chatham University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

The footprints were found in 2021 in Koobi Fora, Kenya, near the eastern shore of  Lake Turkana. They were first spotted by team member Richard Loki at the Turkana Basin Institute, says Hatala: “It was a team of Kenyans who were working there originally.”

Preserved in a dried-out layer of sand and silt, the team found a trackway consisting of 12 footprints, evidently left by one individual walking in a straight line. There were also three isolated prints near the main group, seemingly made by three different individuals. The lack of signs of mud cracking or overprinting of tracks with others indicate that the prints were all made at about the same time. “These sites probably capture a window of time anywhere from minutes to a few days or so,” says Hatala.

This study gives the Darwinian version of things, separed from the book of Genesis.

Source:

Michael Marshall 2024 Ancient footprints show how early human species lived side by side | New Scientist 28 November