Earliest Humanlike Footprints Found In Kenya

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All Things Considered, February 26, 2009 · Scientists digging in a Kenyan desert have found what they believe to be the oldest humanlike footprints. Several individuals laid them down 1.5 million years ago in what was a muddy track.

The scientists discovered not just one set of footprints, but two. The second set was left about 1,000 years after the first set. "It's incredible. I've never excavated anything like this before," says team director John Harris of Rutgers University.

Reporting in this week's issue of the journal Science, the anthropologists say the creatures that made the prints were probably Homo erectus. ........

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