385,000 yr-old human footsteps in Italy - opened to public

385,000 yr-old human footsteps in Italy - opened to public

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Want to walk in the footsteps of the early humans? Tourists in Italy can do almost just that starting this weekend, after footpaths believed to have been left up to 385,000 years ago were opened to the public.
The fossilised footprints, which Italian scientists say are among the oldest anywhere, extend along six trails at the edge of the Roccamonfina volcano in southern Italy.
There is also a handprint, made when one of the primitive humans slipped on the soft earth.

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Makes you wonder dosn't it? if the human race has advanced so far in the past 5000 years . to the quite technoligical state we see today.

then what happened to the people 385,000 years ago , why didn't they develop industrilization and computing etc etc ........

or maybe they did? with the discovery of hidden city's and civilizations all the times makes you wonde if we havn't been nearly wiped out many times before .. it also must be so catastrophic that not much evidence would remain.

or did we just plod along for 384,400 years and then one day invent a vacuum tube and start the world of computers in just 50 years? i also wonder if we havn't had a gentle push from someone /something if this is the case.

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Originally posted by Quantum_Squirrel


or did we just plod along for 384,400 years and then one day invent a vacuum tube and start the world of computers in just 50 years? i also wonder if we havn't had a gentle push from someone /something if this is the case.

Well, we spent 5,000 years using horse and cart and then went from the first car to space flight in less than 100 years .....

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Very interesting post and good questions indeed.

I have my own ideas, and they are mainly based on weather. I believe it depends on hot/cold cycles and the rotation of the Zodiac. And sometimes man's worst enemy, himself.

Whole civilizations have been wiped out from drought, cities flooded by rising sea levels, I mean, how do you get to resources buried under miles of ice?

The assumption you make that early man may not have been a brutish savage breaks with 21 centuries of ingrained thinking. Just what if you are...

RIGHT?