Footprint

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At the crossroads of three continents, the footprints of many civilisations are evident in the wealth of treasures at every turn

Archaeologists in Morocco have unearthed more than 80 human footprints dating back around 100,000 years and believed to be the oldest in North Africa.

The footprints, probably left by five homo sapiens, including children, were discovered on the coast of Larache, a city 90 kilometers south of Tangier, by archaeologists from Morocco, Spain, France, and Germany.

The fossilized hominin footprints, which date to some 300,000 years ago, were probably left by members of the species Homo heidelbergensis

Footprints laid down by Ice-Age hunter-gatherers and recently discovered in a U.S. desert are shedding new light on North America's earliest human inhabitants.

Prehistoric footprints that have puzzled scientists since the 1970s are getting a second look: Were they left by extinct animals or by human ancestors?

When famed paleontologist Mary Leakey first uncovered the footprints in Tanzania 40 years ago, the evidence was ambiguous.

The footprints were formed in soft mud on the margins of a shallow lake which now forms part of a large playa called Alkali Flat

Humans reached America 7,000 years earlier than previously thought. Until now, it was thought that the first settlers arrived about 16,000 years ago.

Archaeologists have found dozens of human footprints in New Mexico that date between 23,000 and 21,000 years ago.

The prints were left in the mud on the shores of a lake that has dried up today.

Scientists in Chile say they have found a footprint dating from at least 15,600 years ago, making it the earliest such sign of man's presence in the Americas. 

A pair of human footprints from 7,500 years ago was found in the Aktopraklık mound where the 15th year of excavations have been completed.