trackway
Preserved dinosaur trail
A trackway is a path or trail, especially one created by repeated passage.
In archaeology and paleontology, trackways are preserved sequences of footprints or other impressions left by ancient animals or humans: The dinosaur trackway showed evidence of herding behavior.
The term also applies to ancient roads or routes visible as marks in the landscape.
Act of unearthing
- postholeCavity for fence supports
- timberWood for construction
- causewayRaised road over water
- boardwalkPlanked waterfront pathway
prehistoric · Neolithic · Bronze Age · Iron Age · Roman · crannog · bog · wetland
Mark from stepping
- impressionEffect on the mind
- sedimentParticles settling in liquid
- strataParallel geological layers
- preservationMaintaining something's condition
fossilization · theropod · sauropod · substrate · pace · stride · locomotion · paleontology
Path through wilderness
byway · ancient road · pilgrimage · trade route · caravan · Silk Road · Inca Trail · drovers
Animal-made pathway
- migration routePath animals travel seasonally
- spoorAnimal's passage evidence
- territoryLand under jurisdiction
- habitatOrganism's natural environment
foraging · predator · prey · scent marks · waterhole · burrow · denning · wildlife crossing
excavation
Act of unearthing
boardwalk · prehistoric · Neolithic · Bronze Age · Iron Age · Roman · crannog · bog · wetland · dendrochronology
footprint
Mark from stepping
- impressionEffect on the mind
- sedimentParticles settling in liquid
- strataParallel geological layers
preservation · fossilization · theropod · sauropod · substrate · pace · stride · locomotion · paleontology · slab
trail
Path through wilderness
passage · byway · ancient road · pilgrimage · trade route · caravan · Silk Road · Inca Trail · drovers · packhorse
game trail
Animal-made pathway
- migration routePath animals travel seasonally
- spoorAnimal's passage evidence
- territoryLand under jurisdiction
habitat · foraging · predator · prey · scent marks · waterhole · burrow · denning · wildlife crossing
rail
Horizontal support bar
- tramwayRail system for carriages
- gaugeStandard of measurement
- sleepersUnactivated spies or surprise hits
wagon · mining · quarry · industrial · haulage · colliery · flanged · wheels · gradient · incline
- trace fossilstrace fossils, trackways, burrows, burrow, footprint
- dinosaur fossilsdinosaur bones, dinosaur footprints, coprolite, mounted skeleton, coprolites
- dinosaursdinosaurs, Velociraptor, Brachiosaurus, raptors, Spinosaurus
- paleontologydinosaurs, fossil, paleontology, fossil record, dinosaur bones
- Cretaceous fossilsVelociraptor, mosasaur, Spinosaurus, ammonite, Albertosaurus
- cryptidsBigfoot, sasquatch, yeti, Nessie, Loch Ness Monster