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Researchers Discover Oldest Human Footprints – Nerdist

Researchers have discovered 120,000-year-old footprints in Saudi Arabia that give insight into how ancient humans and animals migrated together.

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An international team of researchers has announced the discovery of 120,000-year-old fossilized human footprints in Saudi Arabia. The team found the footprints in the Nefud Desert, near a lakebed early Homo sapiens used as a watering hole. Along with the human footprints, the researchers also found footprints of camels, elephants, and even horses.
Stewart et al., 2020
The discovery was described in a recent press release from Royal Holloway, University of London (RHUL). In the release, which c…

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