r/BeAmazed Dec 30 '24

History In 2006, researchers uncovered 20,000-year-old fossilized human footprints in Australia, indicating that the hunter who created them was running at roughly 37 km/h (23 mph)—the pace of a modern Olympic sprinter—while barefoot and traversing sandy terrain.

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u/Red_Icnivad Dec 30 '24

I wonder what the margin of error is on that? Seems like slightly different body shapes could have drastically different effects on things like stride length.

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u/diff-int Dec 30 '24

I imagine the actual paper says something along the lines of "somewhere between 15 and 23 mph" 

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u/Showmethepathplease Dec 30 '24

"Between 1 and 23 MPH with 99% confidence"

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u/thehaddi Jan 01 '25

Non stationary, with 100% confidence. Beat that

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u/SavingsSquare2649 Jan 01 '25

Fool, it was 12 men all standing on one foot