Mystery solved: Footprints from site A at Laetoli, Tanzania, are from early humans, not bears – Popular Archeology
Findings provide conclusive evidence that multiple species of hominins co-existed on the landscape.
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Findings provide conclusive evidence that multiple species of hominins co-existed on the landscape.
The site marks the earliest unequivocal evidence of hominin bipedalism.
The Laetoli footprints found by paleoanthropologist Mary Leakey have been reexamined and proven to be from an archaic human species not bears.
A recent re-excavation of the Site A footprints at Laetoli and a detailed comparative analysis reveal that the footprints were made by an early human, according to a new study reported in Nature.
The oldest unequivocal evidence of upright walking in the human lineage are footprints discovered at Laetoli, Tanzania in 1978, by paleontologist Mary