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| Tingatinga Painting (Photo by Todd Schaffer) |
Way before there were digital footprints, there were human ones.
Four hundred of the latter were recently found within the shifting sands of time. Lots of time. Archaeologists
estimate that these East African footprints were made “between 19,100 and 5,760 years ago.”
Their remarkable preservation had been facilitated by “an ancient volcanic mudflow.” The ash in which these early humans stepped then dried into a concrete-like consistency. The prints were likely made by a group of hunter-gatherers, mostly composed of “adult females.”
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