Africa’s Biggest Collection of Ancient Human Footprints Has Been Found
Hundreds of fossilized impressions are providing a glimpse into ancient human behaviorScience News | May 14, 2020 | Bruce Bower
People walked across a muddy layer of volcanic debris . . . Dating of a thin rock layer that partly overlaps footprint sediment narrows the age range for the footprints to between roughly 12,000 and 10,000 years ago, the team says.
At Engare Sero, Hatala’s team analyzed foot impression sizes, distances between prints and which way prints pointed. One collection of tracks was made by a group of 17 people walking southwest across the landscape, the researchers found. Comparisons with modern human footprint measurements indicate that this group consisted of 14 women, two men and one young boy.
The women may have been foraging for food, while a few males visited or accompanied them, the researchers speculate. Some present-day hunter-gatherers, including Tanzania’s Hadza people, form largely female food-gathering groups.
In another set of six tracks, the footprints point northeast. Those tracks probably weren’t made by people traveling in a group. Instead, the impressions suggest that two women and a man had ambled along leisurely, a woman and a man had walked briskly, and another woman had run across the area, the researchers say.
Any guesses as to what exactly was going on?
Any guesses as to what exactly was going on?
Orgy night at Olduvai Gorge hotel/casino?
Alternatively
A raiding party returning with successful haul of 14 women and a young boy. They bragged about that raid for the rest of their lives. So like, 8 years.
“We came, we saw, we kicked their adzes!”
— Hunter gatherers
“ImpeachTrump!1”
— Democrats opposed to Hunter gatherers
Speaking of Olduvai:
Maybe all those footprints were just Lucy pulling the football away from multiple people.
The earliest known example of social distancing.
This will all be explained when the archaeologists unearth an ancient “MINISTRY OF SILLY WALKS” sign. Keep digging, chaps!
Some cave kids Mom was really pissed.
“I told you not to go to those Flintstone rock-concerts!”
14 women, two men, and one young boy went southwest to see a pre-hysteric Joe Biden rally.
Six of them made it back:
Two women and a man ambling, a woman and a man walking briskly, and a woman running.
That’s the only thing that makes sense.
Sedimentary, my dear Watson.
Any guesses as to what exactly was going on?
Sale at Walmart, no doubt.
Met by hunter-greeters.
“Clean-up in eon five!”
“People walked across a muddy layer of volcanic debris…”
The first Babeigneousleaga
When I was your age I had to walk across muddy, volcanic debris to hunt and gather!
Uphill!
Both ways!
Of course, we had it rough: ….
Let’s ask this guy, he’ll know…………
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2aHxL0gTbmQ
zzyzxt? Switching teams?