Following in the footsteps of early man Two adventurers have set out from Cape Point on foot to retrace the original routes of early man from South Africa 120 000 years ago, to South America 12 000 years ago. At the beginning of May, James Tremayne and David Thompson embarked on a journey that is to take seven years and will cover four continents and 40 000 miles as they rediscover the world of ancient man. The Footsteps of Man expedition began with a tour of the earliest inhabited caves sites on the Western Cape coast. It then crosses South Africa and Botswana, before trailing up through the continent to reach Djibouti by August 2002. The rest of trip takes in the Near and Middle East, and then onto Siberia, before crossing the Bering Straits and down through the Americas finishing at Cape Horn in August 2008. The first milestone was a set of fossilized footprints, left imprinted in a soft sand dune near Cape Town 117 000 years ago by a long-legged, springy-footed creature. About 120 000 years ago this anatomically modern man was ready to cross the world and the Footsteps of Man team is set to retrace his route. The expedition intends using the key archaeological sites that reveal the story of Homo sapiens sapiens filling of the world's continents as its milestones. Visit the web site http://www.footstepsofman.com/ for the updates on the team's process and details on important prehistory sites they visit along the way. ©Copyright Prime Origins 2001 CONTACT BRETT HILTON-BARBER primeorigins.co.za is an iafrica.com Private Label site

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