We think that this huge amount of both numeric and visual data will be very useful for any other human palaeoichnological study. This description is integrated and completed with the tables, graphs, and pictures given in Supplements 1, 2, and 3 of this volume. This report provides a complete description of the general “Ciampate del diavolo” palaeontological site (Tora e Piccilli, Central-Southern Italy) and each of the human ichnites there found so far. A tutto questo si deve aggiungere il fatto, di non poco conto, che le piste hanno una lunga estensione e descrivono tracciati del tutto compatibili con quelli creati dall'andatura umana. L'attribuzione delle orme ai suddetti trackmaker ha avuto luogo sulla base di dettagli anatomici incontrovertibilmente umani, come, ad esempio, la presenza dell'arco plantare la forma concava, asimmetrica e allungata delle orme l'alternanza regolare delle concavità mediali la presenza delle depressioni lasciate dal tallone, dall'alluce e, talvolta, anche da qualche dito le impronte di altre parti anatomiche, come mani, polpacci, caviglie, glutei, etc. Le icniti, infatti, sono conservate al tetto dell'unità LS7 di Tufo Leucitico Bruno (BLT), evidenziano bordi di espulsione, sono coordinate in piste e sono state datate in un range cronologico compatibile con la presenza di esemplari del genere Homo. They are precious in the sight of each future study about the upper limbs of prehistoric humans. A first set of dimensional data is also given. After many years of careful studies, we have enough data to confirm that the first impression was correct and to report about what is, so far, the oldest human fossil handprint in the world. Even if this possibility seemed to be very probable, it has remained a simple hypothesis and has been, for a long time, waiting for a scientific confirmation. During first surveys of the site, in the middle of the Trackway B, aside the traces of a long fossil slide, it was noted a hollow: it was preliminary thought to be the print of a left hand used by the trackmaker to regain lost balance. As well-known, these footprints are not randomly patterned, but are organized into at least two long trackways, called A and B. within the same site in which Middle Pleistocene (about 350 ka) human fossil footprints (the so called “Devil’s Trails”) are preserved. This paper aims to report about all collected data and information on the human handprint firstly identified at Tora e Piccilli palaeoichnological site (Tora-Piccilli, Caserta, Central Italy) i.e.
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