A Geologist Found Human Handprints Inside a Rock Formation Estimated to Be 400 Million Years Old
Dr. Raymond Cross, a field geologist with 27 years of experience, was conducting a survey of a sedimentary rock formation in a remote area of Western Australia in 2016 when he found something that ended his career.
Not a scandal. Not a mistake. He simply submitted his findings, was met with institutional silence, and chose to retire rather than pursue it.
What he found, in a section of sedimentary rock dated by multiple independent methods to approximately 400 million years ago — 400 million, the Devonian period, the age of fish, 360 million years before the first humans — were handprints.
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