MamboFootPrints, Usambara Mountains Tanzania
also known as Madala hominid footprints (also incorrect published as Mandala hominid footprints)
Welcome
to the MamboFootPrints.The habitation of the Usmabara´s goes back to 1,5 million years. Traces were found near the village Mambo and still can be seen, the most important ones are the MamboFootPrints
Facts and figures
In April 2009 near Mambo, district Lushoto in the Usambara Mountains an unique rock is discovered by Ndege Chombo. The rock has many footprints from predecessors of human beings as well as from different animals. Since then different expeditions were organized with professor in history Mr. Mgema from the National Historic Documentary and Mr. Jumanne Gekora Maburi, archaeologist at the ministry of natural resources, antiquities division. Those investigations proved that the discoveries are unique in human history. Particularly because of the number of footprints that are found and the perfect condition they are in. The footprints are at least 1.5 million years old and must be from predecessors of human mankind. They are at the surface and clearly visible with the naked eye.
The footprints are found in a sedimentary deposit, in a layer left after an volcanic eruption. This layer was still soft when people and animals have been passing. The layer must have been covered by sand or new layers which over time again must have been washed or eroded away. The sedimentary layer with the footprints has become solid rock, a process which takes more than 1.5 million years.