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In the Footprints of Our Ancestors: An Overview of the Hominid Track Record

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Pages 106-125 | Published online: 02 Dec 2008

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Charles W. Helm, Martin G. Lockley, Hayley C. Cawthra, Jan C. De Vynck, Mark G. Dixon, Renée Rust, Willo Stear, Monique Van Tonder & Bernhard Zipfel. (2023) Possible shod-hominin tracks on South Africa’s Cape coast. Ichnos 30:2, pages 79-97.
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April Nowell. (2023) Palaeolithic Children Come of Age. Childhood in the Past 16:1, pages 3-12.
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Charles W. Helm, Andrew S. Carr, Martin G. Lockley, Hayley C. Cawthra, Jan C. De Vynck, Mark G. Dixon, Willo Stear & Guy H. H. Thesen. (2023) Dating the Pleistocene hominin ichnosites on South Africa’s Cape south coast. Ichnos 30:1, pages 49-68.
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Spencer G. Lucas. (2017) Human Footprints and the Peopling of the Americas. PaleoAmerica 3:2, pages 97-100.
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Jeong Yul Kim, Kyung Soo Kim, MartinG. Lockley & Neffra Matthews. (2008) Hominid Ichnotaxonomy: An Exploration of a Neglected Discipline. Ichnos 15:3-4, pages 126-139.
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Charles W. Helm, Hayley C. Cawthra, Jan C. De Vynck, Rudolf Hattingh & Martin G. Lockley. (2022) Possible Pleistocene hominin tracks from South Africa’s west coast. South African Journal of Science 118:1/2.
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