Paleo footprints
When you see an actual human footprint from 1.5 million years ago you feel connected to him or her on a whole different level. As fascinating as the Australopithecus afarensis footprints from over 3 million years ago are, this discovery from a million and a half years ago shows a fully modern human foot.
I wonder where this person was headed. What was his or her life like? What was she or he doing the next day? How was this person related to us? Direct lineage or are we an offshoot?
For footprints to be preserved in ancient mud like this could mean the area where s/he tromped through might not have received moisture again for a very long time, not until after the footprints were protected by something. One can speculate a lot from something like this; we can learn a lot about a creature from the Footprints it leaves behind.
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I wonder where this person was headed. What was his or her life like? What was she or he doing the next day? How was this person related to us? Direct lineage or are we an offshoot?
For footprints to be preserved in ancient mud like this could mean the area where s/he tromped through might not have received moisture again for a very long time, not until after the footprints were protected by something. One can speculate a lot from something like this; we can learn a lot about a creature from the Footprints it leaves behind.
Be sure to enlarge the picture.