Portillo writes:
Leakey footprints - Footprints were discovered in ash layers that were dated to 3.5 million years ago,.
Geologists determined the age of the rocks these footprints were found in. Those rocks have an age of around 3.6 million years. Way more than 10 000 years old.
Portillo writes:
around the time apes started walking erect.
Actually, no. Bipedal specializations are found in Australopithecus fossils from 4.2-3.9 million years ago. The footprints you are referring to date from around 3.6 million years old, found in the same strata as a. afarensis fossils.
Portillo writes:
A scientist by the name of Russell Tuttle.
You mean the same scientist who studied these footprints and determined that these a. afarensis creatures, who left these prints, walked bipedally in a fashion almost identical to human beings? That one?
Portillo writes:
.later began studying tribal people that walk around their whole lives barefoot. And observed that the arch in their foot completely disappears, are completely flatfooted and leave tracks identical to the footprints in the ash.
The same one that determined that the creatures (a. afarensis) leaving these prints walked bipedally in a fashion almost identical to human beings from studdying those prints?
Source for some of the information:
Laetoli Footprint Trails | The Smithsonian Institution's Human Origins Program
Sorry, I can’t see where any fraud or hoaxes are involved in this. Could you please highlight where you think fraud or hoaxes were committed?
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