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Footprint verification
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Title
Footprint verification
SubTitle
a new method and case study
Identifier
ETD_2811
Identifier
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http://hdl.rutgers.edu/1782.1/rucore10001600001.ETD.000056633
Language
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eng
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theses
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Topic
Anthropology
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Topic
Footprints, Fossil
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Topic
Fossil hominids
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Geographic
Valsequillo (Puebla, Mexico)--Antiquities
Abstract
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The footprints of hominins can reveal vital information such as presence, height, stride length and morphology that reflects the imprinters’ brand of bipedal locomotion. But how can researchers be sure that marks that look superficially like hominin prints are in fact the real thing? There is currently no method used by the scientific community to assure the validity of hominin prints. I introduce here a method that compares potential prints against others on the basis of their geometry, rather than anatomy as has been used in past print comparisons. The controversial site of Valsequillo, Mexico is tested here against five other print sites throughout the world ranging in age from ~2,120 YBP to 1.5 Ma, as well as a sample of modern unshod individuals. The site’s status as a pre-Clovis hominin site is revoked as the prints fail to fall within the range of prints made by varying species in a range of substrates and depositional environments.
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electronic resource
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viii, 95 p. : ill.
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M.A.
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Includes bibliographical references
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Includes vita
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by Sarita Amy Morse
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Morse
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Sarita Amy
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1978-
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Sarita Morse
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Harris
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John W.K.
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chair
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John W.K. Harris
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Cachel
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Susan
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Advisory Committee
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Susan Cachel
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Ashley
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Gail
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Advisory Committee
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Gail Ashley
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Rutgers University
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Graduate School - New Brunswick
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2010
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2010-10
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xx
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Rutgers University Electronic Theses and Dissertations
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ETD
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Graduate School - New Brunswick Electronic Theses and Dissertations
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rucore19991600001
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NjNbRU
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doi:10.7282/T37W6BXR
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ETD graduate
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The author owns the copyright to this work.
Copyright
Status
Copyright protected
Availability
Status
Open
Reason
Permission or license
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Morse
GivenName
Sarita
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DateTime
2010-08-15 17:11:36
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Sarita Morse
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Rutgers University. Graduate School - New Brunswick
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