Ancient shoes: Tracks on a South African beach offer oldest evidence yet of human footwear

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Sep 11, 2023, 2:00 pm134 pts
When and where did our ancestors first fashion footwear? We cannot look to physical evidence of shoes for the answer, as the perishable materials from which they were made would no longer be evident. Ichnology, the study of fossil tracks and traces, can help to answer this unresolved question through a search…

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