A 15,000-16,000 year old human footprint has been identified in Chile....
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Ancient Footprint Identified in Chile
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Ancient Footprint Identified in Chile
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Re: Ancient Footprint Identified in Chile
Fascinating.
Something is wrong here. War, disease, death, destruction, hunger, filth, poverty, torture, crime, corruption, and the Ice Capades. Something is definitely wrong. This is not good work. If this is the best God can do, I am not impressed.
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Re: Ancient Footprint Identified in Chile
"Early human occupation in southern South America (Patagonia) has been the focus of intense debate over the recent years. Current detailed chronologies show that human presence in the area can be traced back as far as ∼15 kyr [2,10] with a period of ∼3500 years of coexistence with extinct megafauna. This suggests a complex dynamic between climatic and human-made environmental changes, occurring coevally at the end of the Pleistocene [61,62]. The human trace finding in Pilauco, ichnologically characterised as Hominipes modernus, adds a new and independent line of evidence on the colonisation of northern Patagonia, as has been continuously defended for more than 40 years by now based on scientific findings from the neighbouring Monte Verde site.
Is he saying humans have been responsible for climatic change for 15,000 years?
Or that climatic change was responsible for human change?
Is he saying humans have been responsible for climatic change for 15,000 years?
Or that climatic change was responsible for human change?
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Re: Ancient Footprint Identified in Chile
kbs2244 wrote:"Early human occupation in southern South America (Patagonia) has been the focus of intense debate over the recent years. Current detailed chronologies show that human presence in the area can be traced back as far as ∼15 kyr [2,10] with a period of ∼3500 years of coexistence with extinct megafauna. This suggests a complex dynamic between climatic and human-made environmental changes, occurring coevally at the end of the Pleistocene [61,62]. The human trace finding in Pilauco, ichnologically characterised as Hominipes modernus, adds a new and independent line of evidence on the colonisation of northern Patagonia, as has been continuously defended for more than 40 years by now based on scientific findings from the neighbouring Monte Verde site.
Is he saying humans have been responsible for climatic change for 15,000 years?
Or that climatic change was responsible for human change?
Human beings alter their environment. So do beavers, elephants & various other mammals. The environment also shapes its denizens. It's a two way street. Get over it.
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Re: Ancient Footprint Identified in Chile
Environment is far different than climate
A beaver pond is affected by snow melt, but it doesn't cause it.
Elephants can die of thirst if the rains do not come.
A beaver pond is affected by snow melt, but it doesn't cause it.
Elephants can die of thirst if the rains do not come.
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Re: Ancient Footprint Identified in Chile
An environment, any environment, is affected by climate.kbs2244 wrote:Environment is far different than climate
A beaver pond is affected by snow melt, but it doesn't cause it.
Elephants can die of thirst if the rains do not come.
Humans & some mammals can change their environment to mitigate the effects of said climate.
Beavers build dams to create wetlands where there were none before. They also open up dense woodlands by felling trees
Elephants can change a dense woodland into an open savanna by pushing down unwanted trees.
Humans create terraces & irrigation canals. Humans can also change dense woodland into open farmland by slash & burn strategies. They can drain wetlands. They can dredge to deepen river channels.
This is not a woo-woo mystery stuff. It's well documented.
"Nothing discloses real character like the use of power. It is easy for the weak to be gentle. Most people can bear adversity. But if you wish to know what a man really is, give him power. This is the supreme test." ~ Robert G. Ingersoll
"Damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer, and, without sneering, teach the rest to sneer." ~ Alexander Pope
"Damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer, and, without sneering, teach the rest to sneer." ~ Alexander Pope
Re: Ancient Footprint Identified in Chile
The excerpt you quoted was footnoted( 61 and 62) Examining those footnoted articles may provide an answer to your question:kbs2244 wrote:"Early human occupation in southern South America (Patagonia) has been the focus of intense debate over the recent years. Current detailed chronologies show that human presence in the area can be traced back as far as ∼15 kyr [2,10] with a period of ∼3500 years of coexistence with extinct megafauna. This suggests a complex dynamic between climatic and human-made environmental changes, occurring coevally at the end of the Pleistocene [61,62]. The human trace finding in Pilauco, ichnologically characterised as Hominipes modernus, adds a new and independent line of evidence on the colonisation of northern Patagonia, as has been continuously defended for more than 40 years by now based on scientific findings from the neighbouring Monte Verde site.
Is he saying humans have been responsible for climatic change for 15,000 years?
Or that climatic change was responsible for human change?
https://www.pnas.org/content/101/25/9297
https://advances.sciencemag.org/content/2/6/e1501682
Re: Ancient Footprint Identified in Chile
I read the first footnote, but the time frames didn't match.
I skipped the second assuming it reinforced the first.
My bad.
If I read the second correctly. man followed the climate change?
I skipped the second assuming it reinforced the first.
My bad.
If I read the second correctly. man followed the climate change?