Laetoli: Quick Facts

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Also Known As	Laetolil • Garusi

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Laetoli footprints

Homo sapiens cranium fossils from Laetoli, Tanzania

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Topics

Archaeology paleoanthropology Australopithecus afarensis Kilwa Ndutu Machu Picchu Pompeii Petra Babylon Chichén Itzá Troy Qin tomb Göbekli Tepe

Tanzania

country, Africa

Key People

Mary Leakey stands beside a large fiberglass cast of ancient hominid footprints, holding the edge and looking toward the camera.

Mary Douglas Leakey

Kenyan archaeologist

Temple ruins of columns and statures at Karnak, Egypt (Egyptian architecture; Egyptian archaelogy; Egyptian history)

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