footprint evidence vs footprint

footprint evidence and footprint both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
footprint evidence	Yes	No	No	No
footprint	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, footprint is a hypernym of footprint evidence; that is, footprint is a word with a broader meaning than footprint evidence:

Other hypernyms of footprint evidence include evidence, footmark, step.

footprint evidence (noun)	footprint (noun)
evidence in the form of footprints	the area taken up by some object
	a mark of a foot or shoe on a surface
	a trace suggesting that something was once present or felt or otherwise important