90,000-year-old human footprints found on a Moroccan beach
are some of the oldest and best preserved in the world
By Jennifer Nalewicki, LiveScience, January 29, 2024
[www.livescience.com]

90,000-year-old human footprints found on Moroccan beach
by Bob Yirka, PhysOrg, January 31, 2024
[phys.org]

The open access paper is:

Sedrati, M., Morales, J.A., Duveau, J., Mrini, A.E., Mayoral, E.,
Diaz-Martínez, I., Anthony, E.J., Bulot, G., Sedrati, A., Le Gall,
R. and Santos, A., 2024. A Late Pleistocene hominin footprint site
on the North African coast of Morocco. Scientific Reports, 14(1), p.1962.
[www.nature.com]

A related article is:

153,000-year-old footprints from South Africa are the oldest
Homo sapiens tracks on record
By Kristina Killgrove, LiveScience, May 29, 2023
[www.livescience.com]

The paywalled paper is:

Helm, C.W., Carr, A.S., Lockley, M.G., Cawthra, H.C., De
Vynck, J.C., Dixon, M.G., Stear, W. and Thesen, G.H.,
2023. Dating the Pleistocene hominin ichnosites on South
Africa’s Cape south coast. Ichnos, pp.1-20.
[www.tandfonline.com]

Yours,

Paul H.

"The past is never dead. It's not even past."
William Faulkner, Act 1, Scene III, Requiem for a Nun (1951)



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