Arkeo Blusukan

Footprints Suggest Early Humans May Have Walked Upright (David Raichlen, University of Arizona) TUCSON, ARIZONA —  The Washington Post  reports that evolutionary anthropologist David Raichlen of the University of Arizona led a team of researchers who compared footprints made by volunteers and those left some 3.6 million years ago in Laetoli, Tanzania, by members of the genus  Australopithecus . Some of the volunteers walked normally, and some walked with bent knees and bent hips, otherwise known as BKBH. Raichlen suggests the  Australopithecus  footprints resemble those made by modern human upright walkers. “Upright, humanlike bipedal walking goes back four to five million years,” he said.  (resources: Archaeology Magazine, 23/04/2018). To read about previous research on the Laetoli footprints, go to  https://arkeoblusukan.blogspot.com/2016/06/proof-in-prints-in-1976.html