At a 2011 conference, scientists said that H. sapiens tracks at Tanzania's Engare Sero site were 120,000 years old. Those findings have not been published yet, suggesting to Webb a problem with dating or footprint authenticity. Nearly 1-million-year-old footprints of modern human ancestors were recently documented at a British site.
I kinda have a problem with the interp being put on the why behind the prints.
If it was females on the forage, wouldn’t there be the same number both ways?
And, volcanic ash soft enough to leave prints and hardening up quick enough to keep the prints.
Might what we be seeing is scouts returning with a new location to move to and a general evacuation that comes from that?
that this group consisted of 14 women, two men and one young boy.
It’d be interesting to know what that was all about? Hope they weren’t traveling far...
If the footprints show their prehistoric arses to be 6-feet apart we have a big problem here!
As I recall, the Laetoli site had footprints indicating the person had looked over his shoulder, (while turning slightly) and not missing a step .
Why didn’t they keep following the tracks until they found the people?
Easy peasy.
Fascinating! Thanks!
Waiting line at the restroom.
the two men were obviously guards, to make sure that the women did not become prey of the dreaded carnivorous felis catus.
12,00-10,000 years old, meaning they were modern humans, nothing to write home about. Now 3-2.5 million would be...