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Verified, partially excavated places tagged “footprint”

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🇨🇱 Chile · Geoglyph

Huara Geoglyph Field

Late Intermediate Tarapaca phase · Tarapaca and Arica caravan cultures

120+ Huara pampa geoglyphs (800-1400 CE) featuring unique 5-m footprint effigies on salar silt.

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🇹🇿 Tanzania · Archaeological wonder

Laetoli — Hominin Footprint Site

Pliocene (3.66 Ma Laetolil Beds Upper Unit) · Australopithecus afarensis (natural trace)

Laetoli is the 3.66 Ma Pliocene footprint horizon (Site G) 45 km S of Olduvai, where Mary Leakey 1978 found 70 m trail of bipedal hominin footprints (Australopithecus afarensis, 3 individuals) plus…