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Intertidal Holocene footprints and their archaeological significance

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Gordon Roberts ,
Silvia Gonzalez  and
David Huddart
Gordon Roberts
Affiliation:
School of Biological and Earth Sciences, Liverpool John Moores University, Liverpool L3 3AF, England
Silvia Gonzalez
Affiliation:
School of Biological and Earth Sciences, Liverpool John Moores University, Liverpool L3 3AF, England
David Huddart
Affiliation:
School of Education and Community Studies, Liverpool John Moores University, Liverpool L3 3AF, England
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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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Antiquity , Volume 70 , Issue 269 , September 1996 , pp. 647 - 651
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Copyright © Antiquity Publications Ltd. 1996

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