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Oldest Human Footprints With Modern Anatomy Found John Roach
for National Geographic News
February 26, 2009
About 1.5 million years ago, human ancestors walked upright with a
spring in their steps just as modern humans do today, suggests an
analysis of ancient footprints found in northern Kenya.
The prints are the oldest known to show modern foot anatomy.
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episode in Africa that compelled tree-dwelling human ancestors to
venture into the open landscape for food, said John Harris, a
paleoanthropologist at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, New
Jersey.
The ancient footprints indicate a rounded heel, pronounced arch, and a
big toe parallel to the other toes just as modern humans have, Harris
noted. The big toes of chimpanzees, by contrast, splay outward, which
is useful for grasping branches.
"We've lost that, but what we've created is a platform from which we
can step up on and balance ourselves on and push off on in bipedal
locomotion," said Harris, who is a co-author of a paper describing the
footprints in tomorrow's issue of the journal Science.
Embedded in Mud
The rare prints were found embedded in what was once muddy soil among
tracks of ancient birds, lions, antelopes, and other critters. Harris
said the print makers were likely walking to or from a watering hole.
The size and spacing of the footprints indicate they were made by
people with bodies similar to modern humans. Given their age, the
prints were most likely made by Homo erectus, the first human ancestor
to sport long legs and short arms, Harris said.
At the time H. erectus emerged, about 1.5 to 1.7 million years ago,
global climate was cooling and the African landscape was changing from
tropical forest to open savanna. Food sources—nuts, fruits,
vegetables, and animals—were becoming more dispersed.
"There was selection for creatures, including ourselves, that could
walk over longer distances on the landscape between the patches of
more productive food," Harris said.
Adapted for Running?
Daniel Lieberman is an anthropologist at Harvard University in
Cambridge, Massachusetts, and an expert on the evolution of human
locomotion. In an email exchange, he said the "prints unambiguously
indicate that by 1.5 million years ago H. erectus had a human-like
foot."
Other human ancestors such as the australopithecines may have also
been efficient walkers, he said. But a more modern foot anatomy with
spring-like arches and short toes is important for running, which may
have contributed to the success of H. erectus.
(Related: "Humans Were Born to Run, Fossil Study Suggests.")
"I would be surprised if this were not the case," Lieberman said.
"Because how could H. erectus have hunted more than a million years
before the invention of tipped spears—as we know it did—without the
ability to run well?"
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Posted Tue Aug 21, 2007 8:24am AEST
Egyptian archaeologists have found what they said could be the oldest
human footprint in history in the country's western desert, the Arab
country's antiquities' chief said.
"This could go back about two million years," said the secretary
general of the Egyptian Supreme Council of Antiquities Zahi Hawass.
"It could be the most important discovery in Egypt."
Archaeologists found the footprint, imprinted on mud and then hardened
into rock, while exploring a prehistoric site in Siwa, a desert oasis.
Scientists are using carbon tests on plants found in the rock to
determine its exact age, Mr Hawass said.
Khaled Saad, the director of prehistory at the council, said that
based on the age of the rock where the footprint was found, it could
date back even further than the renowned 3 million year-old fossil
Lucy, the partial skeleton of an ape-man, which was found in Ethiopia
in 1974.
Most archaeological interest in Egypt is focused on the time of the
pharaohs.
Previously, the earliest human archaeological evidence from Egypt
dated back around 200,000 years, Mr Saad said.
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Nazca figures
Stretching across the Nazca plains - like a giant map or blueprint
left by ancient astronauts, lie the famous Nazca Lines of Peru. It
also known as Nazca figures, Nazca Pictures and Nazca Images.
The Nazca Lines are an engima. No one know who had built them or
indeed why. Since their discovery, the Nazca Lines have inspired
fantastic explanations from ancient gods, a landing strip for
returning aliens, a celestial calendar, used for rituals probably
related to astronomy, to confirm the ayllus or clans who made up the
population and to determine through ritual their economic functions
held up by reciprocity and redistribution or, a map of underground
water supplies.
There are also huge geoglyphs in Egypt, Malta, United States
(Mississippi and California), Chile, Bolivia and in other countries.
But the Nazca geoglyphs, because of their numbers, characteristics,
dimensions and cultural continuity as they were made and remade
through out the whole prehispanic period, form the most impressive as
well as enigmatic archeological group.
The Nazca Lines are located in the Pampa region of Peru, the desolate
plain of the Peruvian coast which comprises the Pampas of San Jose
(Jumana), Socos, El Ingenio and others in the province of Nasca, which
is 400 Km. South of Lima, covers an area of approximately 450 km2, of
sandy desert as well as the slopes of the contours of the Andes. They
cover nearly 400 square miles of desert. Etched in the surface of the
desert pampa sand about 300 hundred figures made of straight lines,
geometric shapes most clearly visible from the air. They were
supposedly built by an ancient civilization called the Nazca.
The Nazca plain is virtually unique for its ability to preserve the
markings upon it, due to the combination of the climate (one of the
driest on Earth, with only twenty minutes of rainfall per year) and
the flat, stony ground which minimises the effect of the wind at
ground level. With no dust or sand to cover the plain, and little rain
or wind to erode it, lines drawn here tend to stay drawn. These
factors, combined with the existence of a lighter-coloured subsoil
beneath the desert crust, provide a vast writing pad that is ideally
suited to the artist who wants to leave his mark for eternity.
The pebbles which cover the surface of the desert contain ferrous
oxide. The exposure of centuries has given them a dark patina. When
the gravel is removed, they contrast with the color underneath. In
this way the lines were drawn as furrows of a lighter color, even
though in some cases they became prints. In other cases, the stones
defining the lines and drawings form small lateral humps of different
sizes. Some drawings, especially the early ones, were made by removing
the stones and gravel from their contours and in this way the figures
stood out in high relief. eh, Nazca Lines.
The concentration and juxtaposition of the lines and drawings leave no
doubt that they required intensive long-term labor as is demonstrated
by the stylistic continuity of the designs, which clearly correspond
to the different stages of cultural changes.
There appear to be two kinds of designs: the first are figures of
various beings and things and the others form geometric lines.
Huge trapezoidal (wedge-like) designs
The former consists of figures of animals, plants, objects, such as
anthropomorphic figures of colossal proportions made with well-defined
lines.
There are also drawings of flowers and plants, as well as
representations of deformed animals and other strange Nazca figures.
An example of this is the drawing of a weird being with two enormous
hands, one normal and the other with only four fingers. Also
represented are drawings of man-made objects such as yarn, looms and
"tupus" (ornamental clasps). All these figures have well-defined
entrances which could be used as paths or to allow people to line
together along the conformations of the drawings.
The anthropomorphic figures are relatively few and are situated on the
slopes.
The most well-known being The Astronaut at 32m length an E.T.,
discovered by Eduardo Herran in 1982.
Others are The Man with a Hat and The Executioner and they also appear
to be the most primitive. These figures are very similar to the small
petroglyphs found in the rocky areas of the region.
In terms of the lines, many kilometers long, they crisscross sectors
of the pampas in all directions. Many of the lines form geometric
figures: angles, triangles, bunches, spirals, rectangles, wavy lines,
etc. Other lines form concentric circles converging with or emanating
from a promontory. Other prints have formed "roads" like geometric
planes and appear to have been occupied by large groups of the
population.
Spirals of consciousness? Sacred Geometry?
Many lines are random and seem to have no pattern to them. They are
seen over the scattered seemingly at random over the desolate plain,
crossing and intersecting for no apparent reason.
The Nazca Lines were first spotted when commercial airlines began
flying across the Peruvian desert in the 1920's. Passengers reported
seeing 'primitive landing strips' on the ground below. Today people
sometimes fly in hot air balloons to view the splendors of the Nazca
Lines, their eneries awakening something within their souls.
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2. Wing
3. Baby Condor
4. Bird
5. Animal
6. Spiral
7. Lizard
8. Tree
9. Hands
10. Spiral
11. Spider
12. Flower
13. Dog
14. Astronaut
15. Triangle
16. Whale
17. Trapazoids
18. Star
19. Pelican
20. Bird
21. Trapazoid
22. Hummingbird
23. Trapezoid
24. Monkey
25. Llama
26. Trapezoids
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french triangle image and information(footprint). peru image humming
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