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Ancient Footprints
Remarkable human footprints walked straight out of the last ice age when they were re-discovered at Willandra Lakes in 2003 during a routine survey for archaeological sites. The footprints may have been exposed for some time before 2003, and some local Aboriginal people say they already knew they were there.
Research has revealed that the well preserved footprints are about 20,000 years old, and can tell some amazing stories. They are the oldest footprints ever found in Australia and the largest set of ice age footprints in the world.
- What research has been done on the footprints?
- Why can't we see the real trackways?
- How many tracks are there?
- Are tracks like these rare?
- When were the footprints made?
- Who made the footprints and what were they doing?
- What were these people like?
- How did the footprints survive for so long?
- How were the footprint replicas made?
