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The oldest traces of ancient man
Call the region's population of those effects as "lackeys of the devil"
Residents of the area they called "lackeys of the devil" in the belief that it belongs to the supernatural creatures, but, according to scientists, footprints dating back to ancient man, and appreciate her more than 350 thousand years old.
Italian scientists has revealed for users to find what they believe to be the oldest traces of the feet of primitive man.
And these effects is a fossilized imprint of the hands and feet belong to three early humans who were probably trying to climb the slopes of a volcano "Rocamonfeina" in the south of Italy.
Scientists estimate that the return period of these effects are limited to a period between 325 thousand and 385 thousand years.
The analysis of these effects to that primitive man was walking Bakamp moderate and freely, without having to rely on to something, and scientists believe he was using his hands to balance himself.
The scientists concluded that the effects of the feet of the three persons indicated they were walking in a curved or zigzag lines.
He adds that the effects of the Italian scientist, which found impression on the ashes of volcanic fossil, the average length of 20 cm and a width of ten centimeters.
According to estimates it back, it seems, to human beings from the very beginning not more than the length of one of them more than a meter and a half meter.
Dr. Mito, in the article on the subject of scientific publication in the journal "Nature" scientific Wednesday, that "in some of those photos show the effects of the ankle and the joint connecting the big toe, foot, and clear. "
And refers to the existence of a deep imprint can be interpreted as a fingerprint.
The most famous monuments of the left feet of the senior ranks of the ancestors of the human family belongs to the period is estimated at 3.75 million years.
Have been found on these important fossils in the dust of volcanic fossilized in the region of "for Aitole" in northern Tanzania
