6/11/2023 0 Comments Human footprint fossil![]() Finds connected with this biped include femurs, but there are no foot bones or footprints. This puts the Trachilos footprints at the same age as the fossils of the upright-walking Orrorin tugenensis from Kenya. “The tracks are almost 2.5 million years older than the tracks attributed to Australopithecus afarensis (Lucy) from Laetoli in Tanzania,” Uwe Kirscher says. ![]() Using geophysical and micropaleontological methods, researchers have now dated them to 6.05 million years before the present day, making them the oldest direct evidence of a human-like foot used for walking. The footprints from fossilized beach sediments were found near the west Cretan village of Trachilos and published in 2017. Their study has been published in the journal Scientific Reports. ![]() The oldest known footprints of pre-humans were found on the Mediterranean island of Crete and are at least six million years old, says an international team of researchers from Germany, Sweden, Greece, Egypt and England, led by Tübingen scientists Uwe Kirscher and Madelaine Böhme of the Senckenberg Center for Human Evolution and Palaeoenvironment at the University of Tübingen. Six million-year-old fossilized footprints on the island show the human foot had begun to develop. Dating techniques have now shown them to be more than six million years old. Tracks in the sand: One of over 50 footprints of predecessors of early humans identified in 2017 near Trachilos, Crete.
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