These 22,000-Year-Old Drag Marks Could Be Oldest Evidence of a Handcart
If you're a parent you've probably tried, at some point, to navigate the supermarket with a trolley, and at least one child in tow.
22,000-year-old tracks — possibly from ‘oldest known’ vehicle — found in national park
Assuming the drag marks are as old as the researchers estimate, it would make them the “oldest known evidence of vehicle ...
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Prehistoric Human Footprints and Tracks Hint at a 22,000-Year-Old Transporting Tool
As far back as 22,000 years ago, humans may have improvised makeshift transportation ... The results led to traces that were similar to the Alkali Flat tracks, with the poles dragged in the mud, ...
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Fossil footprints reveal what may be the oldest known handcarts
They clip barefoot human tracks along their length ... In our experiments, the pole-ends dragged along the mud truncate footprints in the same way as the fossil example in New Mexico.
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1.5-Million-Year-Old Footprints Spark New Questions About Human History
A recent discovery in Kenya’s Koobi Fora region has given scientists a rare glimpse into the distant past, raising new ...
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22,000-year-old tracks — possibly from ‘oldest known’ vehicle — found in national park
They clip barefoot human tracks along their length, suggesting the user dragged the travois over their own footprints as they went along.” Researchers reconstructed the travois in mud flats in ...
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Fossil footprints reveal what may be the oldest known handcarts – new research
They clip barefoot human tracks along their length ... In our experiments the pole-ends dragged along the mud truncate footprints in the same way as the fossil example in New Mexico.