Archaeologists Found 115,000-Year-Old Human Footprints Where They Shouldn't Be - Popular Mechanics

Mud has been used for up to a thousand years ago to improve human health. But here's a case where mud's preservative qualities go back a whole lot farther. It's not that early humans weren't supposed to be in the general Saudi Arabian area where fossilized footprints were found; it's that ordinarily footprints shouldn't last over a week. Caroline Delbert reports the discovery and its implications. Moving rather closer in time, Shawna Williams examines the data and disputes behind The Peopling of South America. Newer discoveries in the field and laboratory suggest earlier and earlier dates, but there's still a stubborn traditional viewpoint and the evidence is not yet conclusive in many scholars' minds. Moving towards the historic era, Valerie Hansen has a substantial study on Vikings in America. Hansen considers the strength of various sorts of information for pre-Columbian Viking visitation, and emphasizes the Amerindian cultural interconnections, as "Europeans didn't invent globalisation." And a most recent and fun instance of exploration is covered in Yumi Nakayama's Emergency Food from 1965 Japan Expedition Found in Antarctica. Not only Coca-Cola but a vitamin-and-mineral laden chewing gum highlight the find. (WM)

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