First Steps at Laetoli
Origin Stories
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Trackway a and the Bear Question
The 54 prints of Trackway G were made by at least three individuals who were walking close together heading north. A little pause in their steps through the mud is unlike anything else preserved in the fossil record. The smaller individual of the lay-totally G prints has it looks like a limp going on and so you have lots of imaginary moments where they kind of footprints do a littlelike they paused and sort of looked at something and then kind of kept going. Lay-Tole is spectacular but decades later Trackway A and the bear question had been forgotten but never solved.
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