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Article: IN THE FOOTPRINTS OF `EVE' SCIENTIST DATES HUMAN TRACK AS 117,000 YEARS OLD.(News/National/International)
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- Rocky Mountain News (Denver, CO)
- Article date:
- August 15, 1997
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Byline: Lawrence L. Knutson Associated Press
WASHINGTON -- It had just rained when she walked through the sand, leaving three little footprints on her way downhill to the water. ``Her heel landed here and her arch curled up,'' said paleontologist Lee Berger.
That was 117,000 years ago, making the footprints the oldest ever found of an anatomically modern human, Berger said Thursday.
The ancient footprints, discovered by geologist David Roberts, were preserved in a ledge of sandstone at the edge of Langebaan Lagoon, near the Atlantic coast, in southwest South Africa about 60 miles north of Cape Town.
The prints were made ``by a person ...
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