Some pseudo-scientist:
information: Eduardo Mayoral et al, New dating of the Matalascañas footprints provides new evidence of the Middle Pleistocene (MIS 9-8) hominin paleoecology in southern Europe, Scientific Reports (2022). DOI: 10.1038/s41598-022-22524-2
Journal information: Scientific Reports
:-DDD Yes, today's coast is c 20 km from the ancient coast. Thanks a lot, my boy, for this very extensive & beautiful report on Hn-like footprints (even wider than in Hn).
It confirms that early-Pleistocene Homo were coastal omnivores that gradually & in parallel (initially presumably seasonally) followed the ponds & rivers inland. Google e.g. "coastal dispersal Pleistocene Homo" doi 10.13140/RG.2.2.34581.22245.
"... aeolian bodies ... dune origin ... fine sands & silts ... fluidised sediments injection into the sandy upper body ... apparent water saturation of sediments ... coastal areas of the Gulf of Cadiz ... favouring the settlement of human populations ...
shore-line position ... very extensive coastal plain ... large flooded areas in shallow & hyper-saline lacustrine environments ... fluvio-deltaic coastal plain ... tidal flats ... dune systems moving landward from the coast. High sea positions & inter-
stadial periods would favour this development of dune systems ... these footprints...were impressed in the last phases of MIS 9 in transition to MIS 8, a period of variations in the landscape characterised by an extensive coastal plain with large dune
systems in an interglacial progressively extended by several 10s of kms due to a sea retreated during the glacial period."
:-DDD
Only pseudo-scientists still believe these wide-footed people ran after antelopes...
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