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Not sure if this is a repeat or not -

Coast - 15th March BBC2 6.10pm

Alice Roberts studies 5,000-year-old human footprints on a beach near Liverpool, etc.

-Chris

Think it's a repeat, the Formby footprints are (were?) fascinating. Apart from humans there are also aurochs, deer etc
They got a retired chiropodist to study some and, from the prints alone, she deduced that one individual was a heavily pregnant 14 year old girl.
They're just in the mud so they're exposed and then wash away. 10,000 years under a sand dune and then; paff! gone!

Yes, thanks for that nudge - it was well worth watching ...