TY  - SER
AU  - Lenssen-Erz,Tilman
AU  - Pastoors, Andreas
AU  - Ciqae, Tsamkgao
TI  - Tracking in Caves: Reading Human Spoor in Ice Age Caves with San Hunters
T2  - Senri Ethnological Studies ; 
PY  - 2018///
CY  - Osaka-JP : 
PB  - National Museum Ethnology, 
KW  - ARTE RUPESTRE
KW  - SUDAFRICA
KW  - COMUNIDADES INDIGENAS
N2  - The historic and prehistoric hunting-and-gathering subsistence of the San and its modern practice for various purposes necessitates a complex network of ecological knowledge which is being activated and kept thriving, for example, in tracking. This is an ability that is part of an indigenous knowledge system that can also be valuable in scholarly research. Some caves in the French Pyrenees preserve not only rock art from the Late Pleistocene but also human footprints from the same period, representing the most personal marks of individuals from our early ancestry. Despite the unique scope of information that these tracks contain, they have received rather little research interest, and past investigations have been restricted to detailed measuring and description. Although real track reading was not among the abilities of prior researchers, it was nevertheless speculated that some of these tracks were caused by ritual dances. In order to obtain deeper insights into the information embedded in the spoor, three experienced trackers from the Ju/'hoansi San in northern Namibia were invited to inspect the 17,000-year-old Magdalenian tracks in France.
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