Posts Tagged ‘paleoanthropology’
Giant Human Fossil Foot Prints
In 1976 famed anthropologist Mary Leaky discovered 70 human footprints in stone in Tanzania known as the Laetoli tracks. Leaky felt they looked like they were made by modern human beings, but that created a problem. The depressions left by our ancestors were in a stratum dated at 3.6 million years. No modern human could…
Read MorePedro Mountain Mummy Reward Has Been Removed
In 2005 a $10,000 Reward for Pedro Mountain Mummy appeared in headlines in the news around the world. The AP story circulated as their readers were introduced to a little known, little man identified with the Wyoming mountain range he was discovered in 1932. Paleo-anthropology is a fascinating subject where piecing together the skulls and…
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