Evolution Laetoli Footprints

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Thank goodness for the irrepressible urge of humans (and other animals) to joke and play around in nearly any situation. Sometimes, it pays big dividends. It certainly did in 1976, when paleoanthropologist Andrew Hill and a colleague were tossing elephant dung at each other in Laetoli, a hominid archeological site in Tanzania. As Hill dived out of the way, he stumbled on what turned out to be one of the wonders of prehistoric finds: a trail of hominid footprints about 3.6 million years old.

The majority of the Laetoli footprint site was excavated in 1978. Until then, the oldest known footprints of human ancestors were tens of thousands of years old. But this trail, some 80 feet long and preserved in cementlike volcanic ash, had been made by some of the first upright-walking hominids. An almost unimaginable sequence of events preserved what paleontologist Ian Tattersall calls a fossil of human behavior -- prehistoric walking.

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[doriansalvador]

fun vids...!

[Acorvettes]

Thanks I have lots more to post.

[jiminiflix]

@doubledutch6rudder oh well.

[doubledutch6rudder]

@jiminiflix these footprints were made by early bipedal hominins, not humans.Your post doesnt make much sense

[hwangyo5]

@friend4gaara

In Santa Monica mountin trail, there are at least 5 very vivid, clear human foot steps

on rock, I need to know to whom contact to reveal those steps size in approx 30 inch long. I can send you photos. my email address is "hwangyo5@hotmail.com"

[friend4gaara]

@triciaelaine24 shinee :)

[jiminiflix]

If humans made these tracks, then all the textbooks will have to be re-written to say that humans evolved a million and a half years earlier in evolutionary "time." How embarrassing that would be, especially because these older layers contain fossils of the candidate ape forms from which modern man supposedly evolved. If left by modern man that would mean that modern man descended from an ape-like creature that existed after modern man was already alive and walking!



[EltonJThe]

@jityr2 Do an experiment.

[macmarty2025]

excellent. thank you for making this video available for us.

[MumblingMickey]

@hpd707 But since I DON'T have any qualifications in anthropology specifically I tell you what... we'll pit my knowledge of anthropology... which consists of only perhaps a few thousand hours reading, against yours... (presumable 3-4 years study)... how does that sound?

And I'll start that by stating that Johansons examination of AL 288 did not include measurements of the hip ratio with other aferensis. Perhaps you can elaborate on why that might be? After all you are the expert!