{"id":1868,"date":"2015-06-29T08:23:02","date_gmt":"2015-06-29T08:23:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/nerc-footprints\/?p=1868"},"modified":"2015-06-29T08:23:02","modified_gmt":"2015-06-29T08:23:02","slug":"little-feet-calling-all-children","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/nerc-footprints\/2015\/06\/29\/little-feet-calling-all-children\/","title":{"rendered":"Little Feet \u2013 Calling all Children!"},"content":{"rendered":"

These ancient footprints<\/a>, preserved in muddy flood deposits, are\u00a0from Namibia and were made by children as young as three or four tending a small herd of sheep or goats. They contain a remarkable record of past life \u2013 a snap-shot in time. Children\u2019s footprints are quite common in the fossil record occurring in the Pleistocene caves of Europe and at a number of the more famous footprint sites around the world. In 2014 Professor Bennett and his colleagues set out to collect modern data to help interpret these ancient tracks. As part of Bournemouth University\u2019s Festival of Learning they ran the Foot Lab which aimed to collect tracks from children of all ages. This proved successful but in the quest for a larger sample size they are running further data collection exercises as part of the Footprints on the Beach event next weekend so if you have children why not bring them down to the beach and get them involved in a science project and learn more about how children\u2019s footprints change as they grow up? There will be a range of opportunities to meet the scientist and to get involved in some fun activities as well.\"P1030878\"<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

These ancient footprints, preserved in muddy flood deposits, are\u00a0from Namibia and were made by children as young as three or four tending a small herd of sheep or goats. They contain a remarkable record of past life \u2013 a snap-shot in time. Children\u2019s footprints are quite common in the fossil record occurring in the Pleistocene… Read more » about Little Feet \u2013 Calling all Children!<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1176,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1868","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/nerc-footprints\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1868","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/nerc-footprints\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/nerc-footprints\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/nerc-footprints\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1176"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/nerc-footprints\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1868"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/nerc-footprints\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1868\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1870,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/nerc-footprints\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1868\/revisions\/1870"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/nerc-footprints\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/nerc-footprints\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1868"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/nerc-footprints\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}