Last Interglacial (c. 117 kyr) human footprints from South Africa

Abstract

A rare fossilised trackway of human footprints, dated to c. 117 kyr, has been discovered along the shore of Langebaan Lagoon, South Africa. The footprints present direct evidence of human morphology and behaviour at a potentially critical period in human evolution and in the region that presently offers the best fossil record for the origin of anatomically modern human morphology at approximately 120 kyr ago.