AD-S15-04

Spoor
Observed Spoor
AD-S15-04
Spoor Type
footprint, right
Substrate and Taphonomy
Substrate
clay
Taphonomy
sinter
Cave and Project Context
Located in Spatial Subunit
Sector C (Galerie Paul Ambert)
Observed in Project
TiC II
Size Measurement
L-D1: 232
L-D2: 222
Ball width: 86
Heel width: 60
Distance Measurement
Step length to Spoor AD-S15-05: 54
Stride length to Spoor AD-S15-06: 111
Part of Spoor: Reliability of identification
Toes: 1
Ball of foot: 2
Midfoot: 3
Heel: 3
Inference Making
Knowledge generated with the morpho-classificatory method applied by the San trackers
Assigned Subject
Subject AD-S15
Assigned Trackway
AD-TW29
Assigned Activity
Activity Type
locomotion
Speed
fast
Relative Direction
entrance
Geographic North
n
Posture
walking
Additional Weight
no
Assigned Event
Event ID
AD-E21
Event Description

Close to the western wall in the central and northern part of sector C nine footprints were assigned to an exceptional long trackway of subject S15, a female juvenis, who walked at fast speed in direction to the Mesolithic entrance – right (S15-1), left (S15-2), right (S15-3), right (S15-4), left (S15-5), right (S15-6), left (S15-7), right (S15-8) and left (S15 - 9) (Figs. 19, 22 & 23). Subject S15 did not carry any additional weight.