Evidence of humans in North America during the last glacial maximum

MR Bennett, D Bustos, JS Pigati, KB Springer… - Science, 2021 - science.org
Archaeologists and researchers in allied fields have long sought to understand human
colonization of North America. Questions remain about when and how people migrated …

Walking in mud: Remarkable Pleistocene human trackways from white sands national park (New Mexico)

MR Bennett, D Bustos, D Odess, TM Urban… - Quaternary Science …, 2020 - Elsevier
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 …

Fossil footprints at the late Lower Paleolithic site of Schöningen (Germany): A new line of research to reconstruct animal and hominin paleoecology

F Altamura, J Lehmann, B Rodríguez-Álvarez… - Quaternary Science …, 2023 - Elsevier
The ca. 300 ka Paleolithic sites of Schöningen in northern Germany yielded a number of
localities with archeological and paleontological remains representing a rich …

New footprints from Laetoli (Tanzania) provide evidence for marked body size variation in early hominins

FT Masao, EB Ichumbaki, M Cherin, A Barili… - Elife, 2016 - elifesciences.org
Laetoli is a well-known palaeontological locality in northern Tanzania whose outstanding
record includes the earliest hominin footprints in the world (3.66 million years old) …

[HTML][HTML] Earliest parietal art: Hominin hand and foot traces from the middle Pleistocene of Tibet

DD Zhang, MR Bennett, H Cheng, L Wang, H Zhang… - Science bulletin, 2021 - Elsevier
Abstract At Quesang on the Tibetan Plateau we report a series of hand and foot impressions
that appear to have been intentionally placed on the surface of a unit of soft travertine. The …

[HTML][HTML] Terminal Pleistocene epoch human footprints from the Pacific coast of Canada

D McLaren, D Fedje, A Dyck, Q Mackie, A Gauvreau… - PLoS …, 2018 - journals.plos.org
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 …

Human footprints provide snapshot of last interglacial ecology in the Arabian interior

M Stewart, R Clark-Wilson, PS Breeze, K Janulis… - Science …, 2020 - science.org
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 …

Archaeology and ichnology at Gombore II-2, Melka Kunture, Ethiopia: everyday life of a mixed-age hominin group 700,000 years ago

F Altamura, MR Bennett, K D'Août… - Scientific reports, 2018 - nature.com
We report the occurrence at 0.7 million years (Ma) of an ichnological assemblage at
Gombore II-2, which is one of several archaeological sites at Melka Kunture in the upper …

Footprints preserve terminal Pleistocene hunt? Human-sloth interactions in North America

D Bustos, J Jakeway, TM Urban, VT Holliday… - Science …, 2018 - science.org
Predator-prey interactions revealed by vertebrate trace fossils are extremely rare. We
present footprint evidence from White Sands National Monument in New Mexico for the …

Tracking late Pleistocene Neandertals on the Iberian coast

E Mayoral, I Díaz-Martínez, J Duveau, A Santos… - Scientific Reports, 2021 - nature.com
Here, we report the recent discovery of 87 Neandertal footprints on the Southwest of the
Iberian Peninsula (Doñana shoreline, Spain) located on an upper Pleistocene aeolian …