Footprints Mark a Toddler’s Perilous Prehistoric Journey - The New York Times

Mammoths and giant ground sloths roamed the same terrain that a young adult swiftly moved through while toting a young child.

The human footprint sequence from the Pleistocene era extends more than a mile and includes at least 427 human prints.

The sequence extends more than a mile and includes at least 427 human prints.

Most of the human footprints were made by a barefoot adolescent of either sex, or a young adult female with roughly size 6 feet, the team determined.

But about every 100 yards or so, a few much smaller human prints suddenly appear within the northbound set of tracks.

There are no toddler footprints within the southbound set of tracks, so the child probably wasn’t carried on that journey.

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