Ice Age Footprints Found In Aussie Outback

Sydney Morning Herald Deborah Smith December 21, 2005 at 10:48 PM
AP/Michael Amendolia, The Environment Ministry, HO

HUNDREDS of human footprints dating back to about 20,000BC - the oldest in Australia and the largest collection of its kind in the world - have been discovered in Mungo National Park in western NSW.

They were left by children, adolescents and adults at the height of the last ice age as they ran and walked across a moist clay area near the Willandra Lakes.

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