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

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作者
Sedrati, Mouncef [1 ]
Morales, Juan A. [2 ,3 ]
Duveau, Jeremy [4 ,5 ]
El M'rini, Abdelmounim [6 ]
Mayoral, Eduardo [2 ,3 ]
Diaz-Martinez, Ignacio [7 ]
Anthony, Edward J. [8 ]
Bulot, Glen [1 ]
Sedrati, Anass [9 ]
Le Gall, Romain [1 ]
Santos, Ana [10 ]
Rivera-Silva, Jorge [11 ]
机构
[1] Univ Bretagne Sud, Univ Brest, Geo Ocean, CNRS,Ifremer,UMR6538, F-56000 Vannes, France
[2] Univ Huelva, Fac Ciencias Expt, Dept Ciencias Tierra, Campus El Carmen, Huelva, Spain
[3] Univ Huelva, Ctr Cient Tecnol Huelva, Huelva, Spain
[4] Eberhard Karls Univ Tubingen, DFG Ctr Adv Studies Words Bones Genes Tools Tracki, Rumelinstr 23, D-72070 Tubingen, Germany
[5] Univ Perpignan, Museum Natl Hist Nat, CNRS, Hist Nat Homme Prehist,UMR 7194, Via Domitia, Paris, France
[6] Abdelmalek Essaadi Univ, FS, LR3G, Tetouan 93000, Morocco
[7] Univ Cantabria, Fac Ciencias, Dept Ciencias Tierra & Fis Mat Condensada, Santander 39005, Spain
[8] Univ Aix Marseille, CNRS, Coll France, CEREGE,IRD,INRAE, F-13545 Aix En Provence, France
[9] Minist Youth Culture & Commun, Lixus Archaeol Site, Larache, Morocco
[10] Univ Oviedo, Fac Geol, Dept Geol, Campus Llamaquique, Oviedo, Spain
[11] Univ Seville, Ctr Invest Tecnol & Innovac CITIUS, Seville, Spain
关键词
MIDDLE PLEISTOCENE; JEBEL IRHOUD; FOSSIL; STATURE; RABAT; ENVIRONMENTS; LUMINESCENCE; GIBRALTAR; ORIGINS; STRAIT;
D O I
10.1038/s41598-024-52344-5
中图分类号
O [数理科学和化学]; P [天文学、地球科学]; Q [生物科学]; N [自然科学总论];
学科分类号
07 ; 0710 ; 09 ;
摘要
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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