Reading prehistoric human tracks : methods & material / Andreas Pastoors, Tilman Lenssen-Erz, editors.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Pastoors, Andreas, editor.

Lenssen-Erz, Tilman, editor.

George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Footprints, Fossil--Congresses.

Footprints, Fossil.

Antiquities, Prehistoric--Congresses.

Antiquities, Prehistoric.

Paleoanthropology--Congresses.

Paleoanthropology.

Prehistoric peoples--Congresses.

Prehistoric peoples.

Footprints--Congresses.

Footprints.

Genre:

Conference papers and proceedings.

Physical Description:

xiii, 436 pages : illustrations (some color), maps (some color) ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

Cham, Switzerland : Springer, [2021]

Contents:

Chapter 1. Introduction / Andreas Pastoors and Tilman Lenssen-Erz

Part I: Methodological Diversity in the Analysis of Human Tracks

Chapter 2. Inferences from Footprints: Archaeological Best-Practice / Matthew R. Bennett and Sally C. Reynolds

Chapter 3. Repetition without Repetition: A comparison of the Laetoli G1, Ileret, Namibian Holocene and Modern Human footprints using Pedobarographic Statistical Parametric Mapping / Juliet McClymont and Robin H. Crompton

Chapter 4. Reproduce to Understand: Experimental Approach based on Footprints in Cussac Cave (Southwestern France) / Lysianna Ledoux, Gilles Berillon, Nathalie Fourment and Jacques Jaubert

Chapter 5. Experimental Re-Creation of the Depositional Context in which Late Pleistocene Tracks were found on the Pacific Coast of Canada / Duncan McLaren, Quentin Mackie and Daryl Fedje

Chapter 6. Reading Spoor: Epistemic Aspects of Indigenous Knowledge and its Implications for the Archaeology of Prehistoric Human Tracks / Tilman Lenssen-Erz and Andreas Pastoors

Part II: Case Studies from Around the Globe

Chapter 7. Perspectives on Pliocene and Pleistocene Pedal Patterns and Protection: Implications for Footprints / Erik Trinkaus, Tea Jashashvili and Biren Patel

Chapter 8. Frozen in the Ashes: The 3.66-million-year-old Hominin Footprints from Laetoli, Tanzania / Marco Cherin, Angelo Barili, Giovanni Boschian, Elgidius B. Ichumbaki, Dawid A. Iurino, Fidelis T. Masao, Sofia Menconero, Jacopo Moggi Cecchi, Susanna Sarmati, Nicola Santopuoli and Giorgio Manzi

Chapter 9. Steps from History: The Happisburgh Footprints and their Connections with the Past / Nick Ashton

Chapter 10. Reconsideration of the Antiquity of the Middle Palaeolithic Footprints from Theopetra Cave (Thessaly, Greece) / Nina Kyparissi-Apostolika and Sotiris K. Manolis

Chapter 11. On the Tracks of Neandertals: The Ichnological Assemblage from Le Rozel (Normandy, France) / Jeremy Duveau, Gilles Berillon, Christine Verna, Gilles Laisne and Dominique Cliquet

Chapter 12. Hominin Footprints in Caves from Romanian Carpathians / Bogdan P. Onac, Daniel S. Veres and Chris Stringer

Chapter 13. Episodes of Magdalenian Hunter-Gatherers in the Upper Gallery of Tuc d'Audoubert (Ariege, France) / Andreas Pastoors, Tilman Lenssen-Erz, Tsamgao Ciqae, /Ui Kxunta, Thui Thao, Robert Begouen and Thorsten Uthmeier

Chapter 14. Following the Father Steps in the Bowels of the Earth: The Ichnological Record from the Basura Cave (Upper Palaeolithic, Italy) / Marco Avanzini, Isabella Salvador, Elisabetta Starnini, Daniele Arobba, Rosanna Caramiello, Marco Romano, Paolo Citton, Ivano Rellini, Marco Firpo, Marta Zunino and Fabio Negrino

Chapter 15. Prehistoric Speleological Exploration in the Cave of Aldene in Cesseras (Herault, France): Human Footprint Paths and Lighting Management / Philippe Galant, Paul Ambert, and Albert Colomer

Chapter 16. The Mesolithic Footprints retained in one Bed of the Former Saltmarshes at Formby Point, Sefton Coast, North-West England / Alison Burns

Chapter 17. Prehistoric Human Tracks in Ojo Guarena Cave System (Burgos, Spain): The Sala and Galerias de las Huellas / Ana I. Ortega, Francisco Ruiz, Miguel A. Martin, Alfonso Benito-Calvo, Luis Bermejo and Theodoros Karampaglidis

Part III: Experiences with Indigenous Experts

Chapter 18. Tracking with Batek Hunter-Gatherers of Malaysia / Tuck-Po Lye

Chapter 19. Identify, Search and Monitor by Tracks: Elements of Analysis of Pastoral Know-How in Saharan-Sahelian Societies / Laurent Gagnol

Chapter 20. Trackers' Consensual Talk: Precise Data for Archaeology / Megan Biesele

Chapter 21. An Echo from a Footprint: A Step too Far / Steve Webb

Chapter 22. Walking Together: Ways of Collaboration in Western-Indigenous Research on Footprints / Hannah Zwischenberger.

Notes:

Proceedings of a conference hosted May 2017 at the University of Cologne and the Neanderthal Museum.

Open access version available.

Includes bibliographical references.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.

ISBN:

9783030604059

3030604055

OCLC:

1233303803

Publisher Number:

99988714114