From: kutchscience
To: Vigyan Prasar ; mgthakkar ; kutchmitra ; shanti_varu ; laxmansingh ;
jugalt2000 ; Aryagan ; Perran Ross
Sent: Wednesday, September 08, 2004 11:08 AM
Subject: Hominid (PURVa MANAV- Aadi MANAV) foot prints is about 17 inches long
and does look like a normal human footprint.


Sent: Wednesday, September 01, 2004 10:29 AM
Subject: The print is about 17 inches long and does look like a normal human
footprint.


GUJARATI http://www.bombaysamachar.com/20040814/desh04.htm DETAILS ARE in News
Prints
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Some Geologist do diagree with the human footprints in Older layers but they
need to understand the later formations on the layer of old fossilated layers
which are indistiguisable from the newly frmed layers layers at the same place.
(read below)

Hominid Foot prints found in older layers may have been formed later in the
geological process but the study of Photomicrographs and infrared photography is
required so that to eliminate that there were no signs of carving or artificial
markings in or around the prints. A study of microscopic count of sand grains is
ralso required so indicating that the material within the prints had been
impacted, and created as the result of a force pressing down on the firmament
while it was soft. These facts show that the prints were made by the natural
result of pressure from the human foot, and in no way could have been duplicated
by carving. The rock in which the prints were discovered was estimated to be 100
million years old. In recent years, the prints may have been stolen by "thieves
and vandals."
so POP moulds has been prepared and saved, also a portion has been damaged while
removing POP moulds in parts from the print fossile. Many geologist did visited
the place secretely when no other one was there!

Those who do not have sufficient knowledge, do disagree with views, Many doubts
that this is not called the fossil? and many say that layers are too old and
human was not there. but is the Human evolution time scale is adaquate? Man made
structures under sea in the rameshwaram to shriLanka do stand in favour of the
Human activity long before, if that was RAMA time was RAVAN there and was
history of KOTESHWAR formation correct. then human evolution and Darvin may be
INCORRECT or just a guess and Human evolution history should be written in
correct way and order as western world is unaware of these VEDIC science and so
predict wrong way.

Phase Two Fossils: Burroughs Conjecture
The most cogent explanation of anomalous fossil footprints is perhaps offered by
Dr. William Greely Burroughs, of Berea College in Kentucky. Dr. Burroughs
conjecture is that a depression in fossil-bearing rock may, long after the
original fossils have been formed, be filled with a sediment that in its turn
may also become the medium in which the impression of a footprint or the body of
a creature is fossilized. When this second period of fossilization is complete
the newly formed rock may be indistinguishable from the older formation, and the
new fossils may appear to have formed at the same time as those which are much
older. Thus, several fossilization processes may wind up looking like a
footprint made at the same time. This is undoubtebly the case in many instances,
but the theory is lacking in several respects. Firstly, fossilized human
footprints have been found deep within rocks that show no evidence of
discontinuous formation, not just at the junction of sedimentary layers.
Secondly, out of place fossils are often inconsistent not only with the ages of
associated fossils but also with the rock strata and the age conventionally
ascribed to them.

A large stone bearing the perfect imprint of a human foot 14 1/2 inches long was
shown to members of the Ohio State Academy of science in 1896. The stone slab
had been dug from the ground in a hill four miles north of Parkersburg, West
Virginia some 20 years earlier.


The American Anthropologist, February 1896, p.66
http://www.bible.ca/tracks/tracks.htm
http://www.subversiveelement.com/FossilizedHumanFootprints.html
At the summit of Big Hill in the Cumberland Mountains in Jackson County,
Kentucky, is a layer of carboniferous sandstone. In the 1880's it was crossed by
a wagon trail that in time broke up the surface of the rock. When the resulting
debris was cleared away, a series of tracks was discovered in this carboniferous
layer about 300 million years old. There were imprints of a bear, something
resembling a large horse, and two "tracks of a human being, good sized, toes
well spread, and very distinctly marked." The prints were examined by Professor
J.F.Brown of Berea College, Kentucky.
The American Antiquarian, 7:39, January 1885


At the summit of Big Hill in the Cumberland Mountains in Jackson County,
Kentucky, is a layer of carboniferous sandstone. In the 1880's it was crossed by
a wagon trail that in time broke up the surface of the rock. When the resulting
debris was cleared away, a series of tracks was discovered in this carboniferous
layer about 300 million years old. There were imprints of a bear, something
resembling a large horse, and two "tracks of a human being, good sized, toes
well spread, and very distinctly marked." The prints were examined by Professor
J.F.Brown of Berea College, Kentucky.


The American Antiquarian, 7:39, January 1885

In 1938 Dr. Wilbur Burroughs, head of the geology department of Berea College,
Kentucky announced that he had discovered 10 humanoid footprints in
carboniferous sandstone on a farm belonging to Mr. O. Finnell in the hills in
the southern part of Rockcastle County. The prints were 9 1/2 inches long and 6
inches wide. The length between footprints was 18 inches. No marks of forefeet
or a tail were found. Photomicrographs and infrared photography revealed that
there were no signs of carving or artificial markings in or around the prints. A
microscopic count of sand grains indicated that the material within the prints
had been impacted, and created as the result of a force pressing down on the
firmament while it was soft. These facts show that the prints were made by the
natural result of pressure from the human foot, and in no way could have been
duplicated by carving. The rock in which the prints were discovered was
estimated to be 250 million years old. In recent years, the prints have been
destroyed by "vandals."


Brad Steiger, Mysteries of Time and Space, pp.6-7

A pair of human footprints once graced a slab of limestone on the west back of
the Mississippi River at St. Louis. In 1816 or 1817 the slab was quarried from
its position and removed by a Mr. George Rappe to the village of Harmony (now
New Harmony), Indiana. The prints were 10 1/2 inches long and 4 inches wide at
the toes, 6 1/4 inches apart at the heels, and 13 1/2 inches spanning between
the toes, reported Henry R. Schoolcraft, "the toes being very much spread, and
the foot flattened in a manner that happens to those who have been habituated to
go a great length of time without shoes. Notwithstanding this circumstance, the
prints are strikingly natural, exhibiting every muscular impression, and the
swell of the heels and the toes, with a precision and faithfulness to nature,
which I have not been able to copy, with perfect exactness, in the present
drawing....

Every appearance will warrant the conclusion that these
impressions were made at a time when the rock was soft enough to receive them by
pressure, and that the marks and features of the feet are natural and genuine."
In the geologic scheme of things, this limestone hardened about 270 million
years ago. Both the rock and the prints in it were said to show the same
evidence of wear and aging.


The American Journal of Science and Arts, 1:5:223-312, 1822

On the north slope of a boulder strewn hill near the mouth of the Little
Cheyenne River, South Dakota, lies the flat, dazzling white rock of magnesian
limestone, which scientists say was laid down and hardened over 100 million
years ago. On it are three prints of moccasined feet. In size they seem to be
those of a woman or adolescent, and to judge the length of the stride (4 1/2 and
5 1/2 feet) the person who made them was running. In one of the prints, the
impression made by the heel is deeper than that made by the ball of the foot,
which again lends credence to the theory that whoever made the tracks was
running. The depth of the tracks varies from 1/2 an inch to 1 inch. All three
clearly show the instep and faint toe impressions, and all show the same amount
of weathering as the unmarked surface of the surrounding stone. According to an
interview which was obtained with Mr. Le Beau, who had lived in the area for
over 26 years, local Indians knew nothing of the origin of the footsteps, but
viewed the stone as a "medicine rock."


William R. Corliss, Ancient Man: A Handbook of Puzzling Artifacts, p.649

Giant tracks, seemingly made by a human being, were found by a government
trapper in the Alkali Flats area of Great White Sands, New Mexico, in 1931. A
year later a party of four, including O. Fred Arthur, supervisor of Lincoln
National Forest, set out to investigate the tracks, with the government trapper
Ellis Wright as their guide. They found 13 imprints crossing a relic desert
basin in the eastern most foothills of the San Andreas Mountains. Despite the
great size of the tracks, the investigators were convinced they were human, "for
the prints were perfect and even the insteps were plainly marked." Oval shaped,
the prints are 16 to 22 inches long and 8 to 12 inches wide, with a distance
between strides of about 5 feet and a separation in width of 2 feet.


The site was revisited in 1972, 1974, and 1981, and more
tracks were found. When they were first studied, it had been noted that the
imprints were 2 1/2 inches deep. But in 1974 (42 years later) they were between
1 and 1 1/2 inches above the ground! The compacting of the soft earth by the
heavy tread of the creature had preserved the prints while the surrounding soil
had been eroded by wind and the occasional rainfall. By 1981 the tracks stood
well above the surface by several inches. There is no doubt that the tracks were
made by living creatures. One suggestion is that they were made in the 1850's by
US Army camels, a more accepted view is that they are 10,000 years old, and were
made by an extinct animal such as a Mammoth or native camel. But the spacing of
the footprints suggests a two legged creature. The mysterious tracks are now
protected by archaeologists.


U.S. Army Report, 1981

What may well be the oldest fossil footprint ever discovered was found in 1968
by William J. Meister, an amateur fossil collector. If the print is what it
appears to be, the impression of a sandaled shoe crushing a trilobite, it would
have had to have been made 300 - 600 million years ago and would be sufficient
to either overturn all conventionally accepted ideas of human and geological
evolution or to prove that a shoe wearing biped from another world had once
visited this planet. Meister made his potentially disturbing find during rock
and fossil hunting trip to Antelope Spring, 43 miles west of Delta, Utah. He was
accompanied by his wife and two daughters, and by Mr. and Mrs. Francis Shape and
their two daughters. The party had already discovered several fossil trilobites
when Meister split open a rock with his hammer and made the outrageous find. The
rock fell open "like a book" revealing " on one side the footprint of a human
with trilobites right in the footprint itself. The other half of the slab of
rock showed an almost perfect mold of the footprint and fossils. Amazingly, the
human was wearing a sandal."


Trilobites were small marine invertebrates, the relatives
of todays shrimp and crabs that flourished for over 320 million years before
becoming extinct 280 million years ago. Humans are currently thought to have
begun emerging between 1 and 2 million years ago and to have been wearing well
shaped footwear for only the last several thousand. The sandal that seems to
have crushed a living trilobite was 10 3/4 inches long and 3 1/2 inches wide;
the heel is indented slightly more than the sole, as a human footprint would be.
Meister took the rock to Melvin Cook, a professor of metallurgy at the
University of Utah, who advised him to show the specimen to university
geologists. When Meister was unable to find a geologist who was willing to look
at the fossil, he went to the local newspaper, The Desert News. Before long, the
find received national publicity. In a subsequent news conference the curator of
the Museum of Earth Science at the University of Utah, James Madsen said; "There
were no men 600 million years ago. Neither were their monkeys or ground sloths
to make pseudo human tracks. What man thing could have possibly have been
walking around on this planet before vertebrates even evolved?"


Madsen then went on to say that the fossil must have been
formed through natural processes, though what kind he was unable to suggest. Dr.
Jesse Jennings, of the universities anthropology department , guessed (rather
boldly, considering the absence of any supporting visual evidence) that the
print might have been made by one large trilobite coming to rest on three
smaller ones. On July 20th, 1968, the Antelope Spring site was examined by Dr.
Clifford Burdick, a consulting geologist from Tucson, Arizona, who soon found
the impression of a child's foot in a bed of shale. "The impression" he said"
was about 6 inches long, with the toes spreading, as if the child had never yet
worn shoes, which compress the toes. There does not appear to be much of an
arch, and the big toe is not prominent." The print was shown to two geologists
and one paleontologist.


One of the geologist agreed that it appeared to be that of
a human being, but he paleontologist said that no biological agent had been
involved. Dr. Burdick stuck to his guns: "The rock chanced to fracture along the
front of the toes before the fossil footprint was found. On cross section the
fabric of the rock stands out in fine laminations, or bedding planes. Where the
toes pressed into the soft material, the laminations were bowed downward from
the horizontal, indicating a weight that had been pressed into the mud." In
August 1968 Mr. Dean Bitter, an educator in the Salt Lake City public school
system, claimed to have found two more footprints in the Antelope Springs area.
According to Dr. Cook, no trilobites were injured in these footfalls, but a
small trilobite was found near the prints in the same rock, indicating that the
small sea creature and the sandaled traveler might have been contemporaries.


Bible Science Newsletter, August-September 1969, Royal Research Society
Quarterly,
December 1968

In 1882 huge footprints, strongly resembling those of a human wearing shoes,
were found in a layer of sandstone in the yard of the state prison near Carson
City, Nevada, during digging operations. The prints were between 18 and 20
inches long and approximately 8 inches wide. The stride was about 3 feet and the
distance between the left and right tracks, the straddle, was about 19 inches.
Numerous other tracks resembling those of deer, horses, elephants and wolves
were found in the same layer of sandstone. Since the size of the prints and the
age of the rock at the layer they were discovered (2 to 3 million years old)
argued against a human or even a hominid origin, the prints were ascribed to a
more acceptable origin, the tracks of a giant ground sloth. It is thought that
these animals could stand upright, but only by using their tails for additional
support. However, no tail track was found at this site. It was also suggested
that perhaps the animal was walking on four feet, and that its rear legs were
landing exactly in the tracks left by its front feet, thereby creating the
impression of a biped. But this fails to account for the fact that the tracks
show no toe marks.


The American Journal of Science 3:26:139-40, July-December 1883

The imprint of a leather shoe was found in Triassic limestone in Fisher Canyon,
Pershing County, Nevada, by Alfred E. Knapp. According to microphotographs of
the print (found in 1927) the leather was hand stitched with a finer thread than
was customarily used by shoemakers in 1927. Triassic limestone is conventionally
dated as between 180 - 225 million years old.


Brad Steiger, Mysteries of Time and Space, p.18

The footprint of a human being, apparently fleeing toward the Gediz River from a
volcanic eruption, was discovered in volcanic ash during the construction of a
dam near Demirkopru, Turkey, in 1970. The age of the ash was determined to be
250,000 years old by the Turkish Mineral Research and Exploration Institute in
Ankara, and the print was pronounced human by the National Laboratory of
Forensic Science in Sweden. If so, whoever made the print was an antecedent of
Neanderthal man.


Nature, 254:553, April 17th, 1975



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