Researchers investigate world’s oldest human footprints with software designed to decode crime scenes

Researchers at Bournemouth University have developed a new software technique to uncover 'lost' tracks, hidden in plain sight at the world's oldest human footprint site in Laetoli (Tanzania). The software has revealed new information about the shape of the tracks and has found hints of a previously undiscovered fourth track-maker at the site. The Laetoli tracks were discovered by Mary Leakey in 1976 and are thought to be  around...

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Via: The Archaeology News Network