Tracks give archeologists foot in door to 18,000 B.C.

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Discovery of aboriginal runner's dash and children's wanderings, pressed in ancient Australian mud, are called `the nearest we've got to prehistoric film'

By Rod McGuirk
Associated Press
Published December 23, 2005


CANBERRA, Australia -- Children meandered around their parents' ankles. A man, likely a hunter, dashed through the mud. Somebody dragged a dead animal along the shores of a lake.

Now the footprints they left some 20,000 years ago are giving a fresh perspective on the lives of Australian aborigines.

Since an aboriginal park ranger stumbled upon the first print in 2003 in Mungo National Park, 500 miles west of Sydney, archeologists helped by local aborigines have excavated 457 other prints from the region's shifting sands.

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the devil must have put those there to test our faith.