On the devil's tracks: unexpected news from the Foresta ichnosite (Roccamonfina volcano, central Italy)
On the devil's tracks: unexpected news from the Foresta ichnosite (Roccamonfina volcano, central Italy)
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魔鬼的踪迹：来自福雷斯塔岩岩（意大利中部罗卡蒙菲纳火山）的意外消息
DOI：
10.1002/jqs.3186
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发表时间：
2020
影响因子：
2.3
通讯作者：
P. Mietto
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作者：
Adolfo Panarello;M. R. Palombo;I. Biddittu;M. D. Di Vito;Gennaro Farinaro;P. Mietto
福雷斯塔遗迹遗址以保存了欧洲迄今为止记录的一些最古老的人类化石足迹而闻名。这项研究旨在：i）描述比已经报道的更大的新足迹，其中一些形成了一条新的轨道，与所有其他人的方向相反; ii）宣布在Foresta遗迹周围发现了一些石器。新的结果将人类化石足迹的总数增加到至少81个，指定了轨道C的方向和足迹数量，并确定了该地点的三个新的行走方向。此外，对所有遗迹学证据的尺寸范围进行更令人信服和完整的估计，使我们能够估计在被践踏表面上行走的追踪者的数量至少为五个，其中一个可能是成年男性。所有记录到的脚印的大致形状表明，福雷斯塔的足迹制造者与西玛德洛斯韦索斯的足迹制造者有一些相似之处，并且与切普拉诺的头骨属于同一分类群。所有新的证据使我们能够更好地了解中更新世期间Roccamonfina火山地区的人类种群的存在。© 2020约翰威利父子有限公司
The Foresta ichnosite is well known for preserving some of the oldest human fossil footprints recorded in Europe so far. This research aims to: i) describe new footprints that are larger than those already reported, some of which form a new trackway that moves in the opposite direction to all the others; ii) announce the discovery of some stone tools also in the surroundings of the Foresta ichnosite. The new results increase the total number of human fossil footprints to at least 81, specify the direction and the number of footprints of Trackway C, and identify three new directions of walking at the site. More compelling and complete estimates of the dimensional range of all ichnological evidence enables us, furthermore, to estimate the number of trackmakers walking on the trampled surface as a minimum of five, one of them likely being an adult male. The general shape of all the recorded footprints suggests that the Foresta trackmakers share some similarities with those at Sima de los Huesos, and belong to the same taxonomical group as the Ceprano skull. All the new evidence enables us to better understand the presence of hominin populations in the Roccamonfina volcano area during the Middle Pleistocene. © 2020 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.