Homo erectus
A tourist route on the traces of preman found on a slope of Roccamonfina volcano opens in Italy. These prints are named "traces of a devil" - during centuries local residents were sure in their supernatural origin. In 2003 scientists have established, that traces are left by the ancestors of the modern person belonging to specie Homo erectus (“upright man”). According to anthropologists, prints belong to group from at least six hominids, which have passed on the slope of the volcano approximately 385 thousand years ago. The length of prints does not exceed 20 centimeters. By scientists’ appraisals hominids that have left them had growth about one and a half meters. In truth this is hard to take in. More or less distinctly described human history makes no more than 5 centuries, times like about three thousand years ago - and are perceived as something unreal ancient at all. But here - 385 thousand years …
