A Late Pleistocene hominin footprint site on the North African coast of Morocco

Footprints represent a relevant vestige providing direct information on the biology, locomotion, and behaviour of the individuals who left them. However, the spatiotemporal distribution of hominin footprints is heterogeneous, particularly in North Africa, where no footprint sites were known before t...

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Autores: Sedrati, Mouncef, Morales González, Juan Antonio, Mayoral Alfaro, Eduardo, Rivera Silva, Jorge
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Fecha de publicación:2024
País:España
Institución:Universidad de Huelva (UHU)
Repositorio:Arias Montano. Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Huelva
Idioma:inglés
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spelling A Late Pleistocene hominin footprint site on the North African coast of MoroccoSedrati, MouncefMorales González, Juan AntonioMayoral Alfaro, EduardoRivera Silva, JorgeAnthropologyPalaeontology51 Antropología2416 PaleontologíaFootprints represent a relevant vestige providing direct information on the biology, locomotion, and behaviour of the individuals who left them. However, the spatiotemporal distribution of hominin footprints is heterogeneous, particularly in North Africa, where no footprint sites were known before the Holocene. This region is important in the evolution of hominins. It notably includes the earliest currently known Homo sapiens (Jebel Irhoud) and the oldest and richest African Middle Stone Age hominin sites. In this fragmented ichnological record, we report the discovery of 85 human footprints on a Late Pleistocene now indurated beach surface of about 2800 m2 at Larache (Northwest coast of Morocco). The wide range of sizes of the footprints suggests that several individuals from different age groups made the tracks while moving landward and seaward across a semi-dissipative bar-trough sandy beach foreshore. A geological investigation and an optically stimulated luminescence dating of a rock sample extracted from the tracksite places this hominin footprint surface at 90.3 ± 7.6 ka (MIS 5, Late Pleistocene). The Larache footprints are, therefore, the oldest attributed to Homo sapiens in Northern Africa and the Southern Mediterranean.Springer20242024-01-0120242024-01-01journal articlehttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_6501VoRhttp://purl.org/coar/version/c_970fb48d4fbd8a85info:eu-repo/semantics/articleapplication/pdfhttps://hdl.handle.net/10272/23694reponame:Arias Montano. Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Huelvainstname:Universidad de Huelva (UHU)Inglésengopen accesshttp://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_abf2Atribución-NoComercial-SinDerivadas 3.0 Españahttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/es/info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessoai:ariasmontano.uhu.es:10272/236942026-06-02T14:58:11Z
dc.title.none.fl_str_mv A Late Pleistocene hominin footprint site on the North African coast of Morocco
title A Late Pleistocene hominin footprint site on the North African coast of Morocco
spellingShingle A Late Pleistocene hominin footprint site on the North African coast of Morocco
Sedrati, Mouncef
Anthropology
Palaeontology
51 Antropología
2416 Paleontología
title_short A Late Pleistocene hominin footprint site on the North African coast of Morocco
title_full A Late Pleistocene hominin footprint site on the North African coast of Morocco
title_fullStr A Late Pleistocene hominin footprint site on the North African coast of Morocco
title_full_unstemmed A Late Pleistocene hominin footprint site on the North African coast of Morocco
title_sort A Late Pleistocene hominin footprint site on the North African coast of Morocco
dc.creator.none.fl_str_mv Sedrati, Mouncef
Morales González, Juan Antonio
Mayoral Alfaro, Eduardo
Rivera Silva, Jorge
author Sedrati, Mouncef
author_facet Sedrati, Mouncef
Morales González, Juan Antonio
Mayoral Alfaro, Eduardo
Rivera Silva, Jorge
author_role author
author2 Morales González, Juan Antonio
Mayoral Alfaro, Eduardo
Rivera Silva, Jorge
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Palaeontology
51 Antropología
2416 Paleontología
topic Anthropology
Palaeontology
51 Antropología
2416 Paleontología
description Footprints represent a relevant vestige providing direct information on the biology, locomotion, and behaviour of the individuals who left them. However, the spatiotemporal distribution of hominin footprints is heterogeneous, particularly in North Africa, where no footprint sites were known before the Holocene. This region is important in the evolution of hominins. It notably includes the earliest currently known Homo sapiens (Jebel Irhoud) and the oldest and richest African Middle Stone Age hominin sites. In this fragmented ichnological record, we report the discovery of 85 human footprints on a Late Pleistocene now indurated beach surface of about 2800 m2 at Larache (Northwest coast of Morocco). The wide range of sizes of the footprints suggests that several individuals from different age groups made the tracks while moving landward and seaward across a semi-dissipative bar-trough sandy beach foreshore. A geological investigation and an optically stimulated luminescence dating of a rock sample extracted from the tracksite places this hominin footprint surface at 90.3 ± 7.6 ka (MIS 5, Late Pleistocene). The Larache footprints are, therefore, the oldest attributed to Homo sapiens in Northern Africa and the Southern Mediterranean.
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