Olduvai Gorge

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Nearly perfect footprints were discovered in a nearby location- Laetoli- by Mary Leakey.  You can see replicas of the footprints, over 3 millions years old, showing structure similar to modern humans (and NO, dinosaurs did not walk with man or his predecessors).  The footprints were cast, and then re-covered to protect them from erosion.  These footprints showed bipedalism arose much earlier than previously thought.  At the top of Olduvai Gorge, where these photos were taken, is a nice, simple museum explaining the finds here and at Laetoli.
©2006, Jeffrey L. Cooper