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Published online 13 March 2003 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news030310-9
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Earliest human footprints found?
Italian volcano bears tracks of early Europeans.
Palaeontologists have found what could be the earliest human footprints, fossilized in volcanic ash in Southern Italy.
The 20-centimetre prints hint that early man was less than 1.
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