archaeologyfieldwork.com - Footprint find on Crete may push back date humans began to walk upright

Topic ID #38672 - posted 9/2/2017 6:10 AM

Footprint find on Crete may push back date humans began to walk upright

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Human-like footprints have been found stamped into an ancient sea shore fossilised beneath the Mediterranean island of Crete.

They shouldn’t be there.

Testing puts the rock’s age at 5.7 million years.

That’s a time when palaeontologists believe our human ancestors had only apelike feet.

And they lived in Africa.

But a study into the Trachilos, western Crete, prints determines them to feature prominent human features and an upright stance.

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