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Summary

English: Recording the Prints
Photographer
English: NPS
Title
English: Recording the Prints
Description
English:

Multiple researchers kneeling over a site plot and using tools to reveal the footprints fossilized in the gypsum sand.

Multiple techniques were used during the excavation of the fossilized footprints due to the varying environmental conditions. Often, researchers used brushes to carefully reveal the full impression of the footprints in the sediment.

  • Keywords: Footprint; Human; Fossil; Archeology
Depicted place
English: White Sands National Park, New Mexico
Date Taken on 22 January 2020Category:Photographs taken on 2020-01-22
Accession number
4e4c3bfb-a121-4e95-aa37-6395b68aee8b
Source
English: NPGallery
Category:Images from NPGallery
Permission
(Reusing this file)
Public domain This image or media file contains material based on a work of a National Park Service employee, created as part of that person's official duties. As a work of the U.S. federal government, such work is in the public domain in the United States. See the NPS website and NPS copyright policy for more information.
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NPS Unit Code
InfoField
WHSA
Album(s)
InfoField
English: Fossilized Trackways
Category:Archaeological sites in White Sands National Park Category:Footprints Category:Fossils
Category:Archaeological sites in White Sands National Park Category:Footprints Category:Fossils Category:Images from NPGallery Category:PD US NPS Category:Photographs taken on 2020-01-22