9th July 2007, 04:17 PM
Flint scatters can connect one with the actor in the way that you suggest, for example the occasional excavations of a large flat rock with several worked-out cores in a little pile to one side and a flare of waste flakes demarking the shape of two legs and feet. Footprints in general nicely embody the single act of a person, lost shoes and horseshoes even more so: we all know what it's like to get a boot stuck in the sod, and it's a fair bet what the person in history was thinking when it happened to them.
I don't know about Olduvai, but Laetoli always does it for me.
I don't know about Olduvai, but Laetoli always does it for me.