Before revision: Another reestimation by Willem Jan Zachariasse and Lucas Lourens interpret the footprints to have originated 3 million years ago and doubt if they were footprints or the hominins had made the footprints because of the shallow marine setting and the separation of Crete from mainland Greece and Turkey in the Late Pliocene by the South Aegean Basin.
After revision: purportedAnother reestimation by Willem Jan Zachariasse and Lucas Lourens interpret the footprints to have originated 3 million years ago and doubt if they were footprints or the hominins had made the footprints because of the shallow marine setting and the separation of Crete from mainland Greece and Turkey in the Late Pliocene by the South Aegean Basin.