America's most famous human footprints: History, context and first description of mid-Holocene tracks from the shores of Lake Managua, Nicaragua

Ichnos:an International Journal of Plant and Animal

Volumn 16, Issue 1-2, 2008, Pages 55-69

  Lockley, Martin G ^a   Vasquez, Ramiro Garcia ^b   Espinoza, Edgar ^b   Lucas, Spencer G ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b Departamento de Investigaciones Antropologicas Museo Nacional   (Nicaragua)

^c NEW MEXICO MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY AND SCIENCE   (United States)

Author keywords

Acahualinca; Human tracks; Managua; Nicaragua

Indexed keywords

FOOTPRINT; HOLOCENE; HOMINID; ICHNOLOGY; NINETEENTH CENTURY; PRESERVATION; TRACKWAY; TRAMPLING; VOLCANIC ASH;

CENTRAL AMERICA; LAKE MANAGUA; NICARAGUA;

ANIMALIA; AVES; BISON; CERVIDAE; DIDELPHIDAE;

EID: 58449128254     PISSN: 10420940     EISSN: 15635236     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10420940802470755     Document Type: Article

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