Step back: Ancient humans' footprints may mislead
Wednesday, March 20, 2013 - 17:01
in Paleontology & Archaeology
By Tia Ghose, LiveScienceFossil footprints could provide a skewed view of how ancient animals — including early human ancestors similar to the famous Lucy fossil — walked, new research suggests.In the past, paleontologists and anthropologists assumed the depth of the footprint correlated with the pressure used to create it. But the analysis, published March 19 in the Journal of the Royal Socie...