Sentences with phrase «hominid footprints»

The discovery of hominid footprints in East Africa reshaped the study of human origins.

Being anthropocentric, it would be difficult not to be moved by the images of the hominid footprints found by Andrew Hill at Laetoli in Tanzania, estimated at 3.6 million years old.

After a portion of cliff was washed away by the sea, the team found ancient hominid footprints within the hardened clay that had been buried beneath, dating back about 900,000 years based on the vegetation preserved in the clay's sediments.

Not exact matches

Famous footprints of nearly 3.7 - million - year - old hominids, found in 1976 at Tanzania's Laetoli site, now have sizable new neighbors.

More than 500 footprints of ancient horses, rhinos, birds and other animals dotted the area around the hominid tracks.

The 3.5 - million - year - old hominids appeared as models in an exhibit that had just opened at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City; the replicas were based, in part, on fossilized footprints preserved in volcanic ash at Laetoli, Tanzania, which showed unequivocally that these creatures had walked upright.

Fossil footprints indicate that somewhere around 3.5 million years ago hominids — non-ape primates — began walking on two legs.