Human Footprints: Fossilised Locomotion?

• Main Authors: Bennett, Matthew R. (Author), Morse, Sarita A. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2014.
• Subjects: Earth sciences.; Human physiology.; Forensic science.; Sedimentology.; Physical geography.; Anthropology.; Archaeology.; Earth Sciences.; Physical Geography.; Forensic Science.; Human Physiology.

Human footprints provide some of the most emotive and tangible evidence of our ancestors. They provide evidence of stature, presence, behaviour and in the case of early hominin footprints, evidence with respect to the evolution of human gait and foot anatomy. While human footprint sites are rare in...

Table of Contents:

• Fossilisted Locomotion
• Modern Methods of Data Capture
• World Review of Human Track Sites
• Geoconservation of Human Tracks
• The role of substrate in track formation and topology.-Inferences from Human Tracks
• Forensic Applications
• Conclusions
• Glossary
• Appendix
• Geographical Index.