A set of 12,600-year old handprints means humans were roaming the Himalayas thousands of years later than anthropologists thought

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Mark Aldenderfer

One of the prints in the rock.

An international research team has looked at human hand-and-footprints found in 1998 in Tibet and dated them to between 7,400 and 12,600 years old.

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The prints were found in the Himalayan mountains, and now researchers have estimated that they were made by people thousands of years after they initially thought.

The findings were published in the journal Science.

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