The research included professors Kevin Hatala from Chatham U. in Pittsburgh and Craig Feibel of Rutgers and showed two human species might have competed or cooperated.
It’s long been known that multiple species of ancient humans lived in the same hot, lush lakeshore area of East Africa. Yet skeletal remains have made that difficult to prove.Now, a team of researchers say they have unearthed 1.5 million-year-old footprints from two sets of hominins, or extinct human ancestors, that show the species were present at the same time at Koobi Fora around the shore of Lake Turkana in Kenya. The discovery was.
Louis and Mary Leakey, made the family renowned for finds at Olduvai Gorge in Tanzania. Louise Leakey’s parents, Richard and Meave, continued the tradition and performed notable research at the Turkana Basin. Kenyans working for Louise Leakey made the discovery.Using advanced dating techniques, the paper’s authors placed the footprints of Homo erectus and Paranthropus boisei together during the Pleistocene, suggesting some level of coexistence. The Pleistocene Epoch lasted from 2.
an indication different types of humans lived together. And it’s difficult to place the bones at the same location at the same time. presented direct evidence that the two different hominins repeatedly crossed paths, possibly within hours or days along the sandy, silty trails.
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