article_snippet.sent: Researchers examining the site where a series of tracks left by a barefooted early human in Ileret, northwest Kenya, have now found a total of 99 prints.
article_snippet.sent: Researchers examining the site where a series of tracks left by a barefooted early human in Ileret, northwest Kenya, have now found a total of 99 prints now believe that Researchers examining the site where a series of tracks left by a barefooted early human in Ileret, northwest Kenya, have now found a total of 99 prints belong to groups who all passed over the soft mud at the same time - perhaps even stalking some of the other animals whose prints are also preserved in the mud.
article_snippet.sent: The distinct tracks found at Ileret in Kenya (like the one above) are the oldest human footprints in the world .
article_snippet.sent: The tracks in Ileret were first revealed in 2009 after researchers at Bournemouth University and Rutgers’ Koobi Fora Field School in Kenya, announced researchers at Bournemouth University and Rutgers’ Koobi Fora Field School in Kenya had discovered a collection of 22 human prints.
article_snippet.sent: Footprints this old are extremely rare as Footprints tend to erode away in a few thousand years, but are also valuable as Footprints can give clues about behaviour.
article_snippet.sent: Over a four year excavation period a total of 483 prints in the Ileret sediment have now been uncovered - 99 of which were human.
highlights_snippet.sent: The footprints - the oldest human tracks in the world, found in in Ileret, Kenya - may have been left by group hunting antelope or wildebeest .
  