Comments on: Redating Mexico’s Toloquilla Footprints with optically stimulated luminescence http://anthropology.net/2008/06/07/redating-mexicos-toloquilla-footprints-with-optically-stimulated-luminescence/ Beyond bones & stones Sat, 21 Nov 2009 23:33:20 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: A Refined Ar/Ar Date For The ‘Devil’s Footprints’ From The Roccamonfina Volcano In Italy « Anthropology.net http://anthropology.net/2008/06/07/redating-mexicos-toloquilla-footprints-with-optically-stimulated-luminescence/#comment-12719 A Refined Ar/Ar Date For The ‘Devil’s Footprints’ From The Roccamonfina Volcano In Italy « Anthropology.net Tue, 14 Oct 2008 18:34:59 +0000 http://anthropologynet.wordpress.com/?p=908#comment-12719 [...] set from the same era from Willandra Lakes, Australia. There’s also the highly curious 40,000 year old Toloquilla footprints in Mexico. Photos of the Devil's Footprints from Roccamonfina Volcano (Source: [...] [...] set from the same era from Willandra Lakes, Australia. There’s also the highly curious 40,000 year old Toloquilla footprints in Mexico. Photos of the Devil's Footprints from Roccamonfina Volcano (Source: [...]

]]> By: Gary Tunnell http://anthropology.net/2008/06/07/redating-mexicos-toloquilla-footprints-with-optically-stimulated-luminescence/#comment-11379 Gary Tunnell Wed, 11 Jun 2008 05:16:04 +0000 http://anthropologynet.wordpress.com/?p=908#comment-11379 A few years back I observed moose footprints in a snowbank that appeared to be huge human footprints. The moose put each foot into the snow leaving a large entry hole. It then moved forward leaving a "waist," or narrowing where its lower leg had moved forward through the snow. As the foot was removed from the snow for the next step, a larger hole was left at the other end of the "waist." After fine snow almost filled the deep tracks, the resulting "footprints" appeared to have been left by a bipedal hominine. Many supposed "footprints" may, indeed, be left by other animals. This can only be determined in the same way that I determined a moose rather than a hominine made the footprints in the snow, by digging deep to find the real prints well below the surface! A few years back I observed moose footprints in a snowbank that appeared to be huge human footprints. The moose put each foot into the snow leaving a large entry hole. It then moved forward leaving a “waist,” or narrowing where its lower leg had moved forward through the snow. As the foot was removed from the snow for the next step, a larger hole was left at the other end of the “waist.” After fine snow almost filled the deep tracks, the resulting “footprints” appeared to have been left by a bipedal hominine. Many supposed “footprints” may, indeed, be left by other animals. This can only be determined in the same way that I determined a moose rather than a hominine made the footprints in the snow, by digging deep to find the real prints well below the surface!

]]> By: On Mexican Toloquilla Footprints and the “Peopling of the Americas” « Anthropology.net http://anthropology.net/2008/06/07/redating-mexicos-toloquilla-footprints-with-optically-stimulated-luminescence/#comment-11337 On Mexican Toloquilla Footprints and the “Peopling of the Americas” « Anthropology.net Sun, 08 Jun 2008 17:29:06 +0000 http://anthropologynet.wordpress.com/?p=908#comment-11337 [...] Links Redating Mexico’s Toloquilla Footprints with optically stimulated luminescence [...] [...] Links Redating Mexico’s Toloquilla Footprints with optically stimulated luminescence [...]

]]> By: Luis http://anthropology.net/2008/06/07/redating-mexicos-toloquilla-footprints-with-optically-stimulated-luminescence/#comment-11335 Luis Sat, 07 Jun 2008 23:16:09 +0000 http://anthropologynet.wordpress.com/?p=908#comment-11335 There are reasons to be very critical. You don't normally date human presence on controversial footprints and all the rest is against. I have read on other isolated odd datations being discarded almost rutinarily by prehistorians: 12,000 BP Acheulean in NW Spain, a Bell Beaker from Soria apparently from almost 1,000 years before Bell Beaker existed... Things like that happen, you need something more solid to build a theory. Btw, I have not even clear they are human-made. Your pic shows an apparent trail but they looked bear like to me. The image at National Geographic is not much better but guess I can discard the bear. What about Bigfoot? ;) It could be anything: specially if the eruption happened underwater. Why would any human (or any other animal) step on fresh (I mean: hot) volcanic ash anyhow. There are reasons to be very critical. You don’t normally date human presence on controversial footprints and all the rest is against. I have read on other isolated odd datations being discarded almost rutinarily by prehistorians: 12,000 BP Acheulean in NW Spain, a Bell Beaker from Soria apparently from almost 1,000 years before Bell Beaker existed… Things like that happen, you need something more solid to build a theory.

Btw, I have not even clear they are human-made. Your pic shows an apparent trail but they looked bear like to me. The image at National Geographic is not much better but guess I can discard the bear. What about Bigfoot? ;)

It could be anything: specially if the eruption happened underwater. Why would any human (or any other animal) step on fresh (I mean: hot) volcanic ash anyhow.

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