6-million-year-old human footprints found

Samantha Berlin, Newsweek via MSN; Pat Macpherson, Dhr. Seven (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

Forbidden Archeologist Michael Cremo was right

A team of scientists recently discovered the age of over 50 footprints that were found in fossilized beach sediment near Trachilos, Crete in 2017.

They are the oldest known pre-human footprints ever found, dating back more than six million years.

The international team of researchers published their findings in Scientific Reports on October 11, 2021. Utilizing geophysical and micropaleontological methods to find the age of the footprints and estimated them to be about 6.05 million years old.

The scientists believe the footprints date from the Cenozoic era, making them the oldest footprints ever found of a human-like foot. According to scientists, the fossilized footprints shed a light on the early evolution of humans walking as well as the dispersal of mammals from Eurasia to Africa.

"The tracks are almost 2.5 million years older than the tracks from Laetoli in Tanzania, which are ascribed to Australopithecus afarensis (Lucy)," Uwe Kirscher, one of the scientists who led the study, said. More

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