Fossil hominin footprints offer unique direct windows to the locomotor behaviors of our
ancestors. These data could allow a clearer understanding of the evolution of human
locomotion by circumventing issues associated with indirect interpretations of habitual
locomotor patterns from fossil skeletal material. However, before we can use fossil hominin
footprints to understand better the evolution of human locomotion, we must first develop an
understanding of how locomotor biomechanics are preserved in, and can be inferred from …