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Scientists find 800,000-year-old footprints in UK
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From the article: "Scientists dated the footprints by studying their geological position and from nearby fossils of long-extinct animals including mammoth, ancient horse and early vole.
John McNabb, director of the Center for the Archaeology of Human Origins at the University of Southampton — who was not part of the research team — said the use of several lines of evidence meant "the dating is pretty sound.""
Wow, I believe they jumped the gun pretty quickly. This is hardly an accurate way of dating things...
Quoting: Bogan Bread 54000925 I agree, not a good way to date the prints unless that specific layer is overlain by distinct dateable layers. Any layers would probably wind blown or river deposited layers which are harder to date and correlate unlike marine layers which are usually consistent in thickness for large regions and easily traceable. We walk on deposits that are already thousands of years old or older but it would be dumb to connect the two as time synchronous.
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