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Rare/ Archaeologists discover intact 90,000-year-old human footprints

2024-01-31 12:50:00, Kuriozitete CNA
Rare/ Archaeologists discover intact 90,000-year-old human footprints
Traces found in Africa

A team of archaeologists have discovered the discovery of the oldest human footprints ever recorded in North Africa and the southern Mediterranean, reports Euronews . 

The footprints, dating back 90,000 years, were found on a beach in Larache, Morocco, by a multinational team led by Moncef Essedrati, a research professor and laboratory director at France's University of South Brittany.

"Between the tides, I told my team that we should go north to explore another beach," Essedrati told Live Science. 

Using a novel method that determines the recent exposure of specific minerals to heat or sunlight, the Essedrat team was able to determine that approximately 90,000 years ago, a multigenerational group of Homosapiens walked the gently sloping beach.

Published in the journal Nature, the findings shed light on a collection of 85 footprints across two trails attributed to at least five Ice Age humans, ranging in age from children and teenagers to adults. 

Researchers now aim to find out why the Ice Age group was on the beach through further analysis, including exploring various caves along Larache's southern coastline./ CNA 





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