17. Ichnology, noun. The study of the traces plants and animals leave behind them; divided into paleoichnology (concerning ancient, usually fossilized, traces) and neoichnology (concerning modern traces). From Greek ikhnos, “track, clue, footstep,” + legein, “to speak;” first known use dates to 1858. All passages through the world leave some mark on it. The question is how long they last, and if someone who knows to look will notice them. In a moment the earth will shift, and sift out all our travels like thumbprints in a cup of flour. Only rarely is a footstep blessed by being petrified.

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17. Ichnology, noun. The study of the traces plants and animals leave behind them; divided into paleoichnology (concerning ancient, usually fossilized, traces) and neoichnology (concerning modern traces). From Greek ikhnos, “track, clue, footstep,” + legein, “to speak;” first known use dates to 1858.


All passages through the world leave some mark on it. The question is how long they last, and if someone who knows to look will notice them. In a moment the earth will shift, and sift out all our travels like thumbprints in a cup of flour. Only rarely is a footstep blessed by being petrified.

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