Pastoors, Andreas, Lenssen-Erz, Tilman, Ciqae, Tsamkxao, Kxunta, Ui, Thao, Thui, Begouen, Robert, Biesele, Megan and Clottes, Jean (2015). Tracking in Caves: Experience Based Reading of Pleistocene Human Footprints in French Caves. Camb. Archaeol. J., 25 (3). S. 551 - 565. NEW YORK: CAMBRIDGE UNIV PRESS. ISSN 1474-0540

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Abstract

Some of the painted caves in southern France preserve human footprints from the Ice Age of 17,000 years ago. Research has so far dealt with them sparsely and through a morphometric approach only. In 2013 three indigenous hunters/trackers from the Kalahari had an opportunity to read several spoor accumulations in four caves on the basis of their indigenous knowledge. As a result of this morpho-classificatory approach to track readin,g they produced new hypotheses on prehistoric cave visitors. Most spectacular is the narrative which the trackers generated from the footprints not far from the clay bison at Tuc d'Audoubert. Further research is planned to inspect more tracks and look into the epistemological status of the indigenous tracking method.

Item Type: Journal Article
Creators:
CreatorsEmailORCIDORCID Put Code
Pastoors, AndreasUNSPECIFIEDUNSPECIFIEDUNSPECIFIED
Lenssen-Erz, TilmanUNSPECIFIEDUNSPECIFIEDUNSPECIFIED
Ciqae, TsamkxaoUNSPECIFIEDUNSPECIFIEDUNSPECIFIED
Kxunta, UiUNSPECIFIEDUNSPECIFIEDUNSPECIFIED
Thao, ThuiUNSPECIFIEDUNSPECIFIEDUNSPECIFIED
Begouen, RobertUNSPECIFIEDUNSPECIFIEDUNSPECIFIED
Biesele, MeganUNSPECIFIEDUNSPECIFIEDUNSPECIFIED
Clottes, JeanUNSPECIFIEDUNSPECIFIEDUNSPECIFIED
URN: urn:nbn:de:hbz:38-397437
DOI: 10.1017/S0959774315000050
Journal or Publication Title: Camb. Archaeol. J.
Volume: 25
Number: 3
Page Range: S. 551 - 565
Date: 2015
Publisher: CAMBRIDGE UNIV PRESS
Place of Publication: NEW YORK
ISSN: 1474-0540
Language: English
Faculty: Unspecified
Divisions: Unspecified
Subjects: no entry
Uncontrolled Keywords:
KeywordsLanguage
WILLANDRA LAKES; SOUTHEASTERN AUSTRALIA; RECORD; SITEMultiple languages
ArchaeologyMultiple languages
URI: http://kups.ub.uni-koeln.de/id/eprint/39743

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