article_snippet.sent: 99 footprints that appear to have been left by male Homo erectus left behind on a muddy lakeside 1.5 million years ago appear to have been made by prehistoric hunting parties.
article_snippet.sent: The distinct tracks provides some of the strongest evidence yet that the human ancestors that left the prints - Homo erectus - were sophisticated hunters.
article_snippet.sent: While the human ancestors that left the prints - Homo erectus - were sophisticated hunters ancestors before the human ancestors that left the prints - Homo erectus - were sophisticated hunters may have eaten meat the human ancestors that left the prints - Homo erectus - were sophisticated hunters scavenged or from small prey the human ancestors that left the prints - Homo erectus - were sophisticated hunters were able to catch, hunting parties suggests Homo erectus went after larger prey.
article_snippet.sent: Dr Neil Roach, a palaeoanthropologist at the American Museum of Natural History in New York who led a new study, said the prints appeared to have been made by adult males.
article_snippet.sent: This deep print appears to have been left by a male Homo erectus that may have been part of a hunting party .
article_snippet.sent: Analysis of the print tracks (above) showed researchers at Bournemouth University and Rutgers’ Koobi Fora Field School in Kenya had been made by a early human that walked much like we do .
article_snippet.sent: 22 human prints were preserved in sediment that had once been the shoreline of an ancient lake.
article_snippet.sent: Alongside 22 human prints were those of birds including storks, pelicans as well as crocodiles, antelope, hippos, bovids and other predators.
article_snippet.sent: Professor Matthew Bennett, who was part of the team that originally studied the footprints, is shown above crouching in front of the ancient human tracks .
article_snippet.sent: Analysis of the footprints by Professor Matthew Bennett at Bournemouth University revealed 22 human prints had been made by a species with a similar bipedal stance and gait to modern humans, with a pronounced arch and short toes.
article_snippet.sent: Professor Matthew Bennett at Bournemouth University concluded that 22 human prints had probably been left by Homo erectus - an extinct species of early human that disappeared around 200,000 years ago.
article_snippet.sent: the prints had probably been left by Homo erectus - an extinct species of early human that disappeared around 200,000 years ago were among the longest surviving of all the human species - surviving for around 1.5 million years.
article_snippet.sent: There is some evidence that the prints had probably been left by Homo erectus - an extinct species of early human that disappeared around 200,000 years ago may have also been able to control fire and cooked food.
article_snippet.sent: Dr Roach and Roach colleagues decided to study 22 human prints in order to get a snapshot of the life led by Homo erectus.
article_snippet.sent: Unlike the grass-eating antelope and other hooved tracks preserved in the stone - whose tracks led from grasslands to the shore - the human prints all walked in one direction along the shoreline.
article_snippet.sent: This matched the behaviour of other hunting animals whose prints were also preserved.
article_snippet.sent: Curtis Marean, a palaeoanthropologist at Arizona State University in Tempe, said it was hard to tell from the prints exactly what had made Curtis Marean, a palaeoanthropologist at Arizona State University in Tempe.
highlights_snippet.sent: Researchers at the American Museum of Natural History in New York have found 99 footprints that appear to have been left by male Homo erectus .
  