Ileret

Ileret
Basic data
county	Marsabit County
Coordinates	4 ° 19 ′ N , 36 ° 14 ′ E Coordinates: 4 ° 19 ′ N , 36 ° 14 ′ E
	Ileret
	Ileret

Ileret (also Illeret ) is a village in Marsabit County , Kenya . It is located in northern Kenya, on the east bank of Lake Turkana , north of the Sibiloi National Park and near the border with Ethiopia . The population belongs to the Dassanetch people .

The village is located on an elongated sand hill. In Ileret there is a police camp in which two units are stationed: regular police and HSE , and a branch of the Vets Without Borders . The Roman Catholic parish is an outpost of the North Horr parish . She is looked after by Missionary Benedictines of the Benedictine Congregation of St. Ottilien .

In specialist circles in the field of paleoanthropology , Ileret is known for its 1.51 to 1.53 million year old fossil footprints that are attributed to Homo erectus . These 100 or so uncovered footprints prove that Homo erectus had both feet that were essentially the same as modern humans and a comparable form of upright, two-legged locomotion. This enabled him to "cover greater distances and get into more diverse habitats ," which in turn was the prerequisite for colonizing other continents. Based on a group of footprints, the researchers also deduced the weight and thus the gender of the people. These analyzes showed "that several adult men belonged to the group, which indicates a certain tolerance, possibly even cooperation."

The Koobi Fora site is also on the site of the village .

Individual evidence

↑ Florian von Bayern: Because there is something bigger. My life in Africa , Herder, Freiburg i. B. 2010, ISBN 978-3-451-06951-2
↑ "The Ileret prints show that by 1.5 Ma, hominins had evolved an essentially modern human foot function and style of bipedal locomotion." Quoted from: Matthew R. Bennett et al .: Early Hominin Foot Morphology Based on 1.5 Million Year Old Footprints from Ileret, Kenya. In: Science. Volume 323, 2009, pp. 1197-1201; doi: 10.1126 / science.1168132 .
↑ Jack Harris, co-author of the publication on the Ileret footprints, quoted in: Robert Adler: Fossil footprints reveal modern walk. In: New Scientist of March 7, 2009, p. 10 and online version of February 26, 2009.
↑ Homo erectus walked like us. On: mpg.de from July 12, 2016.
Kevin G. Hatala et al .: Footprints reveal direct evidence of group behavior and locomotion in Homo erectus. In. Scientific Reports. Volume 6, Article No. 28766, 2016, doi: 10.1038 / srep28766 .

[1] Florian von Bayern: Because there is something bigger. My life in Africa , Herder, Freiburg i. B. 2010, ISBN 978-3-451-06951-2

[2] "The Ileret prints show that by 1.5 Ma, hominins had evolved an essentially modern human foot function and style of bipedal locomotion." Quoted from: Matthew R. Bennett et al .: Early Hominin Foot Morphology Based on 1.5 Million Year Old Footprints from Ileret, Kenya. In: Science. Volume 323, 2009, pp. 1197-1201; doi: 10.1126 / science.1168132 .

[3] Jack Harris, co-author of the publication on the Ileret footprints, quoted in: Robert Adler: Fossil footprints reveal modern walk. In: New Scientist of March 7, 2009, p. 10 and online version of February 26, 2009.

[4] Homo erectus walked like us. On: mpg.de from July 12, 2016.
Kevin G. Hatala et al .: Footprints reveal direct evidence of group behavior and locomotion in Homo erectus. In. Scientific Reports. Volume 6, Article No. 28766, 2016, doi: 10.1038 / srep28766 .