Footprints Suggest Early Humans May Have Walked Upright
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| (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
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