Bipedalism is a hallmark of being human and the human foot is modified to reflect this
unique form of locomotion. Leonardo da Vinci is credited with calling the human foot “a …

Abstract Human tracks at White Sands National Park record more than one and a half
kilometres of an out-and-return journey and form the longest Late Pleistocene-age double …

The nature of human dispersals out of Africa has remained elusive because of the poor
resolution of paleoecological data in direct association with remains of the earliest non …

Little is known about the ice age human occupation of the Pacific Coast of Canada. Here we
present the results of a targeted investigation of a late Pleistocene shoreline on Calvert …

Footprints represent a unique snapshot of hominin life. They provide information on the size
and composition of groups that differs from osteological and archeological remains, whose …

The ca. 300 ka Paleolithic sites of Schöningen in northern Germany yielded a number of
localities with archeological and paleontological remains representing a rich …

Reconstructions of hominin evolution have long benefited from comparisons with nonhuman
primates, especially baboons and chimpanzees. The hamadryas baboon (Papio …

New ichnological data are available at the prehistoric site of Melka Kunture, Upper Awash
Valley in Ethiopia. Excavation of new test pits enabled us to explore the volcanic and fluvio …

Fossil hominin footprints preserve data on a remarkably short time scale compared to most
other fossil evidence, offering snapshots of organisms in their immediate ecological and …

Paranthropus boisei was first described in 1959 based on fossils from the Olduvai Gorge
and now includes many fossils from Ethiopia to Malawi. Knowledge about its postcranial …