Publication: Southwest Archaeology
Author: John R. Welch
Date of Publication: 2003
PDF File: Welch-On-the-Trail-of-Trails-A-Dialogue-Archaeology-S.pdf
URL: https://www.archaeologysouthwest.org/2023/09/25/on-the-trail-of-trails-a-dialogue/#:~:text=Rather%20than%20speculate%20about%20the%20ebb%20and%20flow,people%2C%20goods%2C%20and%20information%20literally%20on%20the%20ground.
Description
Trails mean many things to many people. Only a bit more than a century ago, pedestrian-equestrian trails were the dominant and primary mode of terrestrial travel and transport across the planet. Until the rise of the automobile, the vast majority of people who had someplace to go beyond their home communities did so on trails.