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Can read more here, more than hominid footprints shown here. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-022-22524-2#Abs1

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This is a subjective question, as there are many people known as the great. You can look more into them if you want, and I found this list of many people. Some of the more famous ones were Alexander, Ashoka, Constantine, and Ramses II.

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This is an oddly specific question, maybe look through public records and documents.

Easily classical Rome or the high middle ages

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I bet there is. There are probably historians, even if it's a small minority, that believe in all sorts of strange theories.

Out of all rulers commonly known by "The Great" epithet, who is the greatest "The Great"?

For sure. I live in a small town in northern Michigan, and a few years ago a guy was metal detecting at a local beach and found a Roman coin dated to the 3rd century CE. It was assumed that it had simply been lost there by a careless modern-day coin collector.

I am much more inclined to believe this is just some weird erosion shaped like a foot.

Are there any historians that still argue for "Great man theory"?

They don’t know how a 1427 coin ended up in a country that wasn’t visited by Europeans until 1497? It hasn’t occurred to them that a European dropped an old coin?

People have supposedly been fishing in that area (Newfoundland) before 1492. Basques?

That's a footprint?

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John Cabot was probably so excited to have sighted land, that he buried this gold coin in tribute. And then they proceeded to kill off the indigenous population with germ warfare. (small pox, swine flu, and viral hepatitis.)

I don't understand why it's so hard to fathom how the coin ended up in Canada. Just because it was struck on a certain date, doesn't mean it had to travel to Canada during that time period. It could easily have been brought over later on.

Nickels don't contain silver. Spoiler alert: they contain nickel.

ETA: apparently during WWII they had 35% silver because nickel was in high demand for the war efforts.