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Abstract

Footprints and tracks are important in archaeology. For example, in Egypt, engraved footprints have been found on the road to Qasr Ibrim (Rose, 1996), the hill top settlement in the far south of Egypt, close to Abu Simbel and recently a book on ancient Egyptian graffiti has been published (Jacquet-Gordon, 2003), presenting predominantly, according to Hagen (2005) “pair[s] footprints engraved into the stone, often accompanied by the titles and name of the owner” but sometimes footprints on their own.

But sets of footprints and other tracks play an even bigger role in palaeontology and the study of these traces of long extinct animals has become an important discipline in its own right, called ‘ichnology’ (only one example of the vast number of papers and books is Lockley & Meyer, 2000). Read more...