A series of footprints that were left by early humans around 900,000 years ago have been discovered by a team of scientists led by the British Museum, Natural History Museum and Queen Mary University of London. The footprints left in ancient estuary muds were found at Happisburgh in Norfolk and are direct evidence of the earliest known humans in northern Europe.
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00:00 Introduction
00:15 How the footprints were found
1:25 Why is Happisburgh one of the richest paleoarcheology sites in Europe?
2:05 What would Happisburgh have looked like in the past?
2:29 Analysis of photographs reveals a new details
3:14 How do they work out how old the human footprints are?
4:38 Further analysis of the footprints reveals another exciting discovery
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