Pliocene footprints in the Laetolil Beds at Laetoli, northern Tanzania
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 23328650 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Mary D Leakey (Tanzania National Parks), Richard L Hay (Tanzania National Parks) |
| Year | 1979 |
| Volume | 278 |
| Issue | 5702 |
| Pages | 317-323 |
| Publication date | 1979-03-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Nature (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0028-0836 • E-ISSN: 1476-4687 |
| Publisher | Springer Science and Business Media LLC (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1038/278317a0 |
| OpenAlex | W1998454654 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 174 |
| References cited | 2 |
Archaeology · Geography · Tanzania · Evolution and Paleontology Studies · Geology · Marine animal studies overview · Paleontology · Wildlife Ecology and Conservation
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Fossilized Hawaiian Footprints Compared with Laetoli Hominid Footprints
In What Manner Did They Walk on Two Legs?
The relative cost of bent-hip bent-knee walking is reduced in water
Wenner‐Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research
The Evolution of Language
Have We Been Barking up the Wrong Ancestral Tree? Australopithecines Are Probably Not Our Ancestors
When the Land Sings
Converging on Ancient Bones
The strange case of the rickety Cossack
On the Ecological Connection Between Sabre-tooths and Hominids
Fire and its roles in early hominid lifeways
The Pattern of Human Evolution
What's New in African Paleoanthropology
Paleo-primatology and -anthropology in Africa
Hallucial convergence in early hominids
The evolution of human skin
Human and Domestic Animal Tracks in an Archaeological Lagoon Deposit on the Coast of Namibia
Role of Environmental Stimuli in Hominid Origins
Environmental Change within the Laetoli Fossiliferous Sequence
Serengeti Micromammal Communities and the Paleoecology of Laetoli, Tanzania
Suidae
Paleoecology
Bodies, Brawn, Brains and Noses
Geochemistry and Mineralogy of Laetoli Area Tuffs
Rhinocerotidae
The Ecology and Biogeography of the Endulen-Laetoli Area in Northern Tanzania
Origin of Bipedal Locomotion
Prehistoric Human Footprint Sites
Ileret Footprints
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Phylogenetic Analysis of Early Hominids [and Comments and Reply]
The Fossil Evidence for Paranthropus
Australopithecines
Beginnings of pastoralism and cultivation in north-west Africa and the Sahara
The palaeo-ecology of the African continent
Major Events in Hominin Evolution
The cultures of the Middle Palaeolithic/Middle Stone Age
The First Million Years
The earliest archaeological traces
The Feet of Fossil Homo
Human evolution
Fossils, feet and the evolution of human bipedal locomotion
Early Hominin Foot Morphology Based on 1.5-Million-Year-Old Footprints from Ileret, Kenya
Laetoli Pliocene hominid footprints and bipedalism
Lucy's limbs
Evolutionary Implications of Pliocene Hominid Footprints
Palaeoanthropological discoveries in the Middle Awash Valley, Ethiopia
Isotopic dietary reconstructions of Pliocene herbivores at Laetoli
Sterkfontein Member 2 Foot Bones of the Oldest South African Hominid
The Great Divides
Fossil apes and human evolution
Evolution of hominid bipedalism and prehensile capabilities
Effects of upright posture on hand preference for reaching vs. the use of probing tools by tufted capuchins (Cebus apella)
Swift and sure-footed on the Savanna
In memoriam
Reconstructing Movement in Prehistory
Pachyosteosclerosis suggests archaic Homo frequently collected sessile littoral foods
Did plate tectonic changes lead to the emergence of hominid bipedalism
Neolithic track sites from Formby Point, England
A three-dimensional geometric morphometric study of the effects of erosion on the morphologies of modern and prehistoric footprints
An Experimental Use of Ground-Penetrating Radar to Identify Human Footprints
New evidence of prehistoric human activity on the central Tibetan plateau during the early to middle Holocene
Microevolutionary changes in the skeleton of the foot of Japanese
Laetoli toes andAustralopithecus afarensis
Human origins and the origins of humanity
The adaptive response of human skin to the savanna
Further progress on the Laetoli trails
Functional Interpretation of the Laetoli Footprints
Role of Environmental Stimuli in Hominid Origins
Recent Evolution of the Human Foot
Australopithecus africanus
Steps from History
The Origins of Bipedal Locomotion
On the Tracks of Neandertals
Paleoenvironments and Hominin Evolution
Paleoecology
Inferences from Footprints
From the Middle to the Later Stone Age in Eastern Africa
The Origins of Bipedal Locomotion
Paleoecology
Laetoli Revisited
Postural and Locomotor Adaptations of Australopithecus Species
Hominins from the Upper Laetolil and Upper Ndolanya Beds, Laetoli
Relationship between trackmakers of the Laetoli footprints from gait synchronization
Local people’s interpretations of the hominin footprints at Laetoli, Tanzania
How did humans acquire erect bipedal walking
Taphonomic Study of a Modern Baboon Sleeping Site at Misgrot, South Africa
Heritage Management and Early Human Evolution
Integrating a Landscape Approach for the Sustainable Preservation of Laetoli Footprints
Dynamic similarity predicts gait parameters for Homo floresiensis and the Laetoli hominins
Heritage forfeited and forgotten
The effects of mid-to-late Pliocene climatic fluctuations on the habitat and distribution of early hominins
Tracing the emergence of modern human behavior
Fossil footprints and what they mean for hominin paleobiology
Tephrostratigraphy and geological context in paleoanthropology
| Unique citing works | 174 |
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| Citations per year | 3,78 |
| Citation span | 1980 - 2026 (47) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | Yes |
| Citation types | Neutral: 156 |