[cripplecreek]

the bare footprints of an 8- to 10-year-old torch-bearing boy left in the mud of a back chamber some 26,000 years ago—and, alongside one of them, the paw print of his traveling companion, variously identified as a wolf or a large dog.

If they could follow the tracks they may discover that it wasn't such a Norman Rockwell painting they're painting here.

[Pharmboy]

You may be right...but with no signs of a struggle in the hardened dirt, they assumed the best.