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Friday, 07 February 2014
Earliest footprints outside Africa discovered in Norfolk
Scientists have discovered the earliest evidence of human footprints outside of Africa, on the Norfolk Coast in the East of England. The footprints are more than 800,000 years old and were found on the shores of Happisburgh. They are direct evidence of the earliest known humans in northern Europe. Details of the extraordinary markings have been published in the science journal Plos One. The footprints have been described as "one of the most important discoveries, if not the most important...
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