A Late Pleistocene hominin footprint site on the North African coast of Morocco.

ABSTRACT: Footprints represent a relevant vestige providing direct information on the biology, locomotion, and behaviour of the individuals who left them. However, the spatiotemporal distribution of hominin footprints is heterogeneous, particularly in North Africa, where no footprint sites were known before the Holocene. This region is important in the evolution of hominins. It notably includes the earliest currently known Homo sapiens (Jebel Irhoud) and the oldest and richest African Middle Stone Age hominin sites. In this fragmented ichnological record, we report the discovery of 85 human footprints on a Late Pleistocene now indurated beach surface of about 2800 m² at Larache (Northwest coast of Morocco). The wide range of sizes of the footprints suggests that several individuals from d

SUBMITTER: Sedrati M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10806055 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature