The Willandra Footsteps : Australia's Oldest Ancient Human Footprint

Описание: In relation to human evolution in Australia, we have made a video on the discovery of Mungo Man and Mungo Lady and their relation to the Aboriginals. In this video we will be covering the footprints that our ancestors left in this continent. Mungo National Park in western New South Wales is home to the oldest known cremation in the world - Mungo Lady's remains - and the oldest known ritual burial in the world - Mungo Man's ochre-covered skeleton.
Now, its sands have given up another world-class treasure, more than 500 fossilised human footprints, the biggest collection ever found.The shifting sands of time have revealed Australia's earliest human footprints, giving a glimpse of life at the height of the last ice age. In 2003, well-preserved tracks were discovered on the clay pan of Lake Mungo, although some of the local Aboriginal people have stated they knewabout the tracks before this time.
There are approximately 700 fossil footprints, 457 of them grouped in a set of 23 tracks. At tens of thousands of years old this find is the largest group of human footprints from the Pleistocene era ever found.Most of these are humanfootprints, although there are some kangarooand emu tracks. These footprints are about20,000 years old, having been left in the last iceage, during the Pleistocene period.Ancient Australians walked across the claypanwhilst it was damp. When it dried it set likeconcrete, preserving their footprints.
Archaeologist Dr Matthew Cupper says a young woman by the name of Mary Pappin Junior of the Mutthi Mutthi people found the footprints in August 2003 while exploring the area with team member Professor Steve Webb of Bond University on Queensland's Gold Coast, as part of a project to educate young Aboriginal people in archaeology.Ms Pappin, said walking alongside the footprints was like "walking with a family group today. They're the same people".
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