Leaving their footprints behind

 

 

People who walked on a muddy lakeshore in southeastern Australia thousands of years ago, never thought that they would leave behind their footprints which would still be around, some 20,000 years later! A group of scientists who uncovered these barefoot impressions say that it’s the largest collection of Stone Age footprints ever discovered. Scientists used a laser beam – bounced off the surface of the grains of sand – to accurately date the footprints. By analysing the footprints, scientists have concluded that they possibly belong to six adults and two teenagers. Interestingly it turns out that the adults were running?!