The composition of a Neandertal social group revealed by the hominin footprints at Le Rozel (Normandy, France)
Journal: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
Year: 2019

Footprints represent a unique snapshot of hominin life. They provide information on the size and composition of groups that differs from osteological and archeological remains, whose contemporaneity is difficult to establish. We report here on the discovery of 257 footprints dated to 80,000 y from the Paleolithic site at Le Rozel (Normandy, France), which represent the largest known Neandertal ichnological assemblage to date. We investigate the size and composition of a track-maker group from th