Archaeologists Found 115,000-Year-Old Human Footprints Where They Shouldn’t Be (www.popularmechanics.com)

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[-] abbadon420@sh.itjust.works 75 points 1 month ago

I hate the clickbaity title and will not click it. So I'm just gonna assume they're talking about the moon

[-] uselessartifact@lemmy.zip 54 points 1 month ago

Taken from the what you'll learn in this article section at the top:

Fossilized footprints in Saudi Arabia show human traffic on the cusp of a subsequent ice age.
Like carbon dating, scientists use isotopes and context clues to calculate the approximate age of fossils.
These human prints were surrounded by animals but not hunted animals, indicating humans were just thirsty.

[-] dream_weasel@sh.itjust.works 25 points 1 month ago

3. These human prints were surrounded by animals but not hunted animals, indicating humans were just thirsty.

Uh... Thirsty for what? 😬

[-] yggstyle@lemmy.world 17 points 1 month ago

Look.. What in nature haven't we fucked.

[-] 0_o7@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 1 month ago

Real estate?

gestures broadly at everything

[-] dumnezero@piefed.social 2 points 1 month ago

Humans have been around, as a species, for 0.3 million years (approximately). The most recent 10,000 years are not a statistically representative sample of humans.

[-] p03locke@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Thirsty - feeling thirst
Thirst - a sensation of dryness in the mouth and throat associated with a desire for liquids, also : the bodily condition (as of dehydration) that induces this sensation

Jokes aside, why does everybody feel the need to gravitate towards the least popular definition here?