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Ancient Footprints in Italy
June 11 , 2026
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- Scientists studied 14,000-year-old human footprints and handprints found in Grotta della Bàsura cave in northern Italy.
- The traces belonged to five Epigravettian hunter-gatherers, including two adults, one adolescent, and two children.
- Around 180 footprints and handprints were discovered on the cave floor.
- The findings provide the first fossil evidence of humans crawling through narrow cave passages.
- The group used Scots pine (Pinus sylvestris) twig torches for lighting inside the cave.
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