Oldest human footprint found in Chile

Oldest human footprint found in Chile

Reuters . Santiago |
 Update: 10:25, May 08, 2019
  

An ancient footprint is pictured, having formed cracks due to desiccation after being extracted from its original site, in Osorno, Chile sometime in April 2019. Photo: Reuters

An ancient footprint is pictured, having shaped cracks thanks to desiccation when being extracted from its original web site, in Osorno, Chile someday in April 2019. Photo: ReutersA fifteen,600-year recent footprint discovered in southern Chile is believed to be the oldest ever found within the Americas, in keeping with researchers.

The footprint was 1st discovered in 2010 by a student at the Universidad Austral of Chile. Scientists then worked for years to rule out the chance that the print could have belonged to another species of animal, and to work out the fossil's calculable age.

Karen Moreno, a paleontologist with the Universidad Austral United Nations agency has overseen the studies, aforementioned researchers had additionally found bones of animals close to the positioning, as well as those of primitive elephants, however determined that the footprint was proof of human presence.

Moreno aforementioned this was the primary proof of humans within the Americas older than twelve,000 years.

"Little by very little in South America we're commencing to notice sites with proof of human presence, however this is often this oldest within the Americas," she aforementioned.