A Tale of Monuments

Do you like to be at Latoli?
You will come across footmarks, which, fortunately, are not lost.

History believes in footmarks
Experts are busy finding explanations
Who are the owners of these footmarks?
Are they black or white?
They discovered lava streams engulfing every inch of Latoli and
A hapless creature escaping the first eruptive fury,
Only to get crushed beneath a stone block
These are the winning steps
Therefore, historians decided to build white monuments over them.