Archeology is one of my favorite topics on this channel because well that’s how we
are able to get a glimpse of our past.
Basically everything we know or think we know about where we came from, our planet, the
timeline of human history has all been based on clues that we have uncovered.
And that could be an ancient text, some age old bones or a prehistoric fossile.
But that’s the thing, we base most of what we know about how our planet was formed, our
ancestors and how they lived on clues that we have found.
But on this vast planet filled with unexplored caves mysterious mysterious waters there are
still so many clues that could be out there, some of which could drastically alter our
version of history.
So far according to scientists the way it goes is that modern humans have been around
for about 200,000 years, before that we were Neanderthals, go back 4 million years and
we were basically a bunch apes then go all the way back 2.1 billion years ago and we
were all just cells with a nucleus.
But again and again new clues seem to emerge that tells a different story and all we have
to do is follow the footprints...literally…
because In the summer of 1968, an amateur fossil collector, William J. Meister, made
the discovery of a lifetime 43 miles west of Delta, Utah.
To his surprise he found a fossilized human footprint, but whats even more strange is
that, well its not just a footprint, it was a shoe print about the size of a US 13 shoe
(3.5″W x 10.25″L).
Now finding a shoe fossile is not all that uncommon because our ancestors had shoes but
this particular fossile is that of the shoe stepping on a trilobite.
And if you dont know, Trilobites were small marine invertebrates related to crabs and
shrimps.
What makes this incredibly important is that well... trilobites only existed between 260
to 600 million years ago and that’s pretty amazing beacause Scientists currently think
humans emerged 1 or 2 million years ago and only began wearing such shoes a few thousand
years ago.
As one might expect, this sent shockwaves throughout the scientific communities with
excitement for a new paradigm shift as well as skeptical denial.
Meister took the rock to Melvin Cook a professor of metallurgy at the University of Utah,,
who suggested he show it to the university’s geologists.
But none of the geologists were willing to examine it, so Meister took it to a local
newspaper called The Deseret News and the news quickly spread around the country.
This amazing find was presented on March 1, 1973 in a creation-evolution debate at Cali
fornia State University in Sacramento.
The creationist team included Dr. Duane Gish of the Institute for Creation Research and
Reverend Boswell of a local Sacramento church.
The scientific team consisted of Dr. Richard Lemmon of the University of California at
Berkeley and Dr. G. Ledyard Stebbins of the s.
Reverend Boswell said: “I have here something that pretty much
destroys the entire geological column.
It has been studied by three laboratories around the world and it’s been tested and
found valid.
It represents a footprint that was found at Antelope Springs, Utah, while digging for
trilobites.
The man was digging for trilobites, and these are trilobites here and here embedded [pointing
to photo].
This is a brick mold of a trilobite footprint [laughter] of a human footprint with a trilobite
in it.
The man stepped on a living trilobite, [thus burying] him in the mud.
This particular strata is dated Cambrian, supposedly 500 million years extinct before
man arrived on the face of the earth.
The interesting thing about this photograph is that there is also heel marks, which would
indicate that they were made by modern man.”
And In a news conference, the skeptical curator of the Museum of Earth Science at the University
of Utah, James Madsen, dismissively said: “There were no men 600 million years ago.
Neither were there monkeys or bears or ground sloths to make pseudo-human tracks.
What man-thing could possibly have been walking about on this planet before vertebrates even
evolved?”
Now this was not the only time fossile of what looks like a modern shoe has been found.
On January 15 1917, Albert E. Knapp an employee of the Nevada Mining Company found a fossile
of the heel of a shoe in dated 225 million years ago.
the fossil amongst some loose rocks when he was descending a small hill in the Fisher
Canyon, Pershing County, Nevada.
The rock was later examined by an expert geologist at the Rockefeller Foundation.
Where it was confirmed that the rock is undoubtedly limestone from the Triassic period.
Also what was amazing was that the age-old shoe-sole print bore a well-made leather stitched
by a double row of stitches.
The twists of the threads are clearly visible.
This finding puzzled investigators as double-stitching done with such refined threading had not been
implemented by shoemakers in 1927.
Also In 1997, a fossillized shoe print was found Urumqi City in china that measured 10
inches long.
The fossil was estimated to be around 200 million years old.
Now whether you choose to believe that these are really footprints of modern humans from
hundreds of millions of years ago or not.
The point is that, these clues have been found all around the world and just because they’re
not lauded by main stream scientists doesn’t diminish their existence and to me it’s
really pompus to think that yes we have everything figured out, modern humans emerged out of
africa and that’s it, but even
that is just a theory and constantly debated.
I mean is the possiblity that we are so very far off in terms of what we think we know
about our past that hard to belive let me know..
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