Koobi Fora: 1.5 Million-Year-Old Human Footprint Shows Anatomically Modern Feet
Thursday, February 26, 2009 - 17:56
in Paleontology & Archaeology
Ancient footprints show that some of the earliest humans walked like us and did so on anatomically modern feet 1.5 million years ago. This anatomical interpretation is the conclusion of Rutgers Professor John W.K. Harris and an international team of colleagues. Harris is a professor of anthropology, a member of the Center for Human Evolutionary Studies and director of the Koobi Fora Field Project. Harris is also director of the field school which Rutgers University operates in collaboration with the National Museums of Kenya. From 2006 to 2008, the field school group of mostly American undergraduates, including Rutgers students, excavated the site yielding the footprints. read more
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