They’re known as the Laetoli footprints, located along the southern edge of the Serengeti Plains in north Tanzania, Africa. First identified by archaeologists in 1978, the site was initially ...

These techniques will be demonstrated using the site of Laetoli, Tanzania as a case study. This Plio-Pleistocene site is located south of Olduvai Gorge (Figure 3) and preserves the tracks and ...

Below is a personal account of my field experiences at Laetoli, Tanzania, a site made famous when Dr. Mary Leakey and her team discovered fossilized footprint trails of Australopithecus afarensis ...

It certainly did in 1976, when paleoanthropologist Andrew Hill and a colleague were tossing elephant dung at each other in Laetoli, a hominid archeological site in Tanzania. As Hill dived out of ...

afarensis. A trail of 69 prints captured in volcanic ash. Discovered by a team led by Mary Leakey in 1978 in Laetoli, Tanzania. The First Family Fragments of 13 individuals who may have perished ...

Image of Laetoli A3 footprint (on left) and image of a cast of Laetoli G1 footprint (on right). Analysis shows similarities in length of Laetoli A3 and G footprints but differences in forefoot ...