Modern-day trackers reinterpret Stone Age cave footprints
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GIRL INTERRUPTED African trackers concluded that this set of ancient footprints in a French cave came from a 12-year-old girl who left an uneven number of left and right foot impressions. A dotted box marks a complete pair of footprints.
Heinrich Wendel