footprints

     

Footprints are the impressions or images left behin by a person walking. Hoofprints and pawprints are those left by animals with hooves or paws rather than feet, while "shoeprints" is the specific term for prints made by shoes. They may either be indentations in the ground or something placed onto the surface that was stuck to the bottom of the foot. A "trackway" is set of footprints in soft earth left by a life-form; animal tracks are the footprints, hoofprints, or pawprints of an animal.

Trivia about footprints

  • In 1978 Mary Leakey noticed these, left by hominids 3 million years ago in volcanic ash
  • In "A Psalm of Life, " Longfellow tells of leaving these behind "on the sands of time"
  • In "A Psalm of Life", Longfellow tells of leaving these behind "on the sands of time"
  • They're what we "leave behind us... on the sands of time"