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Major find in White Sands NP: Fossil footprints, 23,000 yo, may re-set date of peopling of Americas

Writer's picture: Dave Harmon, PW editorDave Harmon, PW editor

Ancient human footprints preserved in the ground across the White Sands National Park in New Mexico are astonishingly old, scientists reported on Thursday, dating back about 23,000 years to the Ice Age.


The results, if they hold up to scrutiny, would rejuvenate the scientific debate about how humans first spread across the Americas, implying that they did so at a time when massive glaciers covered much of their path.


https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/23/science/ancient-footprints-ice-age.html

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