Title:
New fossil tracks belonging to human ancestors found in South Africa
Author:
Charles helm, African Centre for Coastal Palaeoscience, Nelson Mandela University
Published:
The Conversation, 22 October 2020
From the article:
* Around a hundred thousand years ago, South Africa’s Cape south coast was a busy place. Giraffes, crocodiles, hatchling sea turtles and large bird species populated the landscape. Early humans were there, too.
We know all of this because of fossil tracksites that today dot the Cape south coast, which is about 400km east of Cape Town. These sites date to between 400,000 years and 35,000 years ago, to a geological epoch known as the Pleistocene.
* Now we’ve found three further hominin tracksites – and possibly a fourth. The sites are described in a recently published article in the South African Journal of Science.