Intertidal Holocene footprints and their archaeological significance

Antiquity - Tập 70 Số 269 - Trang 647-651 - 1996
Gordon Roberts1, Silvia González1, David Huddart2
1School of Biological and Earth Sciences, Liverpool John Moores University, Liverpool L3 3AF, England.
2School of Education and Community Studies, Liverpool John Moores University, Liverpool L3 3AF, England

Tóm tắt

The Holocene mud-flats of Formby Point, at the mouth of the Mersey estuary in northwest England, have long provided information about their palaeoenvironment. Now they yield a more direct evidence — in the form of preserved footprints — of the people and animals that frequented the foreshore.

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