TY - BOOK AU - Pastoors,Andreas AU - Lenssen-Erz,Tilman TI - Reading prehistoric human tracks: : methods & material SN - 9783030604066 PY - 2021///] CY - Cham, Switzerland PB - Springer KW - Footprints, Fossil KW - Paleoanthropology KW - Archaeology KW - Physical anthropology KW - Electronic Books N1 - Includes bibliographical references; Part I. Methodological diversity in the analysis of human tracks; Inferences from footprints : archaeological best practice; Repetition without repetition : a comparison of the Laetoli G1, Ileret, Namibian Holocene and modern human footprints using pedobarographic statistical parametric mapping; Reproduce to understand : experimental approach based on footprints in Cussac Cave (Southwestern France); Experimental re-creation of the depositional context in which late Pleistocene tracks were found on the pacific coast of Canada; Reading spoor; Part II. Case studies from around the globe; Perspectives on Pliocene and Pleistocene pedal patterns and protection; Frozen in the ashes; Steps from history; Reconsideration of the antiquity of the middle Palaeolithic footprints from Theopetra Cave (Thessaly, Greece); On the tracks of neandertals : the ichnological assemblage from Le Rozel (Normandy, France); Hominin footprints in caves from Romanian Carpathians; Episodes of Magdalenian hunter-gatherers in the upper gallery of Tuc d’Audoubert (Ariège, France); Following the father steps in the bowels of the earth : the ichnological record from the Bàsura Cave (upper Palaeolithic, Italy); Prehistoric speleological exploration in the cave of Aldène in Cesseras (Hérault, France) : human footprint paths and lighting management; The Mesolithic footprints retained in one bed of the former saltmarshes at Formby Point, Sefton Coast, North West England; Prehistoric human tracks in Ojo Guareña cave system (Burgos, Spain) : the Sala and Galerías de las Huellas; Part III. Experiences with indigenous experts; Tracking with Batek hunter-gatherers of Malaysia; Identify, search and monitor by tracks : elements of analysis of pastoral know-how in Saharan-Sahelian societies; Trackers’ consensual talk : precise data for archaeology; An echo from a footprint : a step too far; Walking together : ways of collaboration in western-indigenous research on footprints UR - https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007%2F978-3-030-60406-6.pdf ER -