The Foresta ichnosite is well known for preserving some of the oldest human fossil footprints recorded in Europe so far. This research aims to: i) describe new footprints that are larger than those already reported, some of which form a new trackway that moves in the opposite direction to all the others; ii) announce the discovery of some stone tools also in the surroundings of the Foresta ichnosite. The new results increase the total number of human fossil footprints to at least 81, specify the direction and the number of footprints of Trackway C, and identify three new directions of walking at the site. More compelling and complete estimates of the dimensional range of all ichnological evidence enables us, furthermore, to estimate the number of trackmakers walking on the trampled surface as a minimum of five, one of them likely being an adult male. The general shape of all the recorded footprints suggests that the Foresta trackmakers share some similarities with those at Sima de los Huesos, and belong to the same taxonomical group as the Ceprano skull. All the new evidence enables us to better understand the presence of hominin populations in the Roccamonfina volcano area during the Middle Pleistocene. © 2020 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

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在魔鬼的轨道上：来自Foresta ichnosite（意大利中部Roccamonfina火山）的意外消息

Foresta ichnosite以保存迄今为止在欧洲记录的一些最古老的人类化石足迹而闻名。这项研究的目的是：i）描述比已经报道的足迹更大的新足迹，其中一些足迹形成了一条新的足迹，与所有其他足迹相反。ii）宣布也在Foresta ichnosite周围发现一些石材工具。新结果将人类化石足迹的总数增加到至少81个，指定了Trackway C的足迹的方向和数量，并确定了在该地点行走的三个新方向。此外，对所有鱼类学证据的尺寸范围进行更引人入胜且更完整的估算后，我们还可以估算在踩踏的地面上行走的追踪器的数量最少为5个，其中之一可能是成年男性。所有记录到的足迹的总体形状表明，Foresta的追踪器与Sima de los Huesos的追踪器具有某些相似之处，并且与Ceprano头骨属于同一分类组。所有的新证据使我们能够更好地了解中更新世期间罗卡莫非那火山地区存在的人源菌素。©2020 John Wiley＆Sons，Ltd.