Researchers are excited: In the east of England footprints were discovered, which could be up to 800,000 years old. It would have been the oldest traces of human life outside of Africa.
On a beach in the east of England, researchers have discovered 800,000 years old human footprints. When the prints in Happisburgh in Norfolk if it were the oldest human traces such outside Africa, said Nick Ashton of the British Museum in London on Friday.
The tracks were discovered near an archaeological site on the coast at low tide when the waves had washed away the sand over an underlying layer of silt.
Them had become clear that there are human footprints on closer investigation, and that they must be documented as soon as possible the surface before they would be washed away by the sea water, Ashton said.
After the size of the footprints to close they come from a man, as well as several smaller people, perhaps women and children. If it were apparently less a hunt group, as a family.