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Laetoli footprints
These footprints were made about 3.6 million years ago by a bipedal hominid, likely Australopithecus afarensis. They are the earliest direct evidence of homonid bipedalism, though it is likely Ardipithicus was walking upright two million years earlier. Disclaimer: This file is not made directly from scan data. I used available topographic imagery to create a rough approximation, and cleaned up the result to make an idealized artistic representation of the footprints. There is no scientific value to the file, and it is not a replica but an interpretation and close approximation to the original. Source: Objaverse 1.0 / Sketchfab
Data from: Laetoli footprints reveal bipedal gait biomechanics different from those of modern humans and chimpanzees
Bipedalism is a key adaptation that shaped human evolution, yet the timing and nature of its evolution remain unclear. Here we use new experimentally based approaches to investigate the locomotor mechanics preserved by the famous Pliocene hominin footprints from Laetoli, Tanzania. We conducted footprint formation experiments with habitually barefoot humans and with chimpanzees to quantitatively compare their footprints to those preserved at Laetoli. Our results show that the Laetoli footprints are morphologically distinct from those of both chimpanzees and habitually barefoot modern humans. By analysing biomechanical data that were collected during the human experiments we, for the first time, directly link differences between the Laetoli and modern human footprints to specific biomechanical variables. We find that the Laetoli hominin probably used a more flexed limb posture at foot strike than modern humans when walking bipedally. The Laetoli footprints provide a clear snapshot of an early hominin bipedal gait that probably involved a limb posture that was slightly but significantly different from our own, and these data support the hypothesis that important evolutionary changes to hominin bipedalism occurred within the past 3.66 Myr.
Data from: Laetoli footprints reveal bipedal gait biomechanics different from those of modern humans and chimpanzees
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Data from: Walking on ashes: insect trace fossils from Laetoli indicate poor grass cover associated with early hominin environments
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