Debra
Dagobah Resident
Interesting, I wonder if the release of the findings is to try and stir up the Indigenous population again?
"The footprints are the earliest firm evidence for humans in the Americas and show people must have arrived here before the last Ice Age."
The team has studied the footprints at White Sands National Park for years, following the tracks with ground-penetrating radar and excavating trenches.
From the article:
"The tracks at one location have been revealed as both the earliest known footprints and the oldest firm evidence of humans anywhere in the Americas, showing that people lived there between 21,000 and 23,000 years ago — several thousand years earlier than scientists once believed."
[...]
“We’d been suspicious of the age for a while, and so now we finally have that it’s really exciting,” Bustos said. “One of the neat things is that you can see mammoth prints in the layers a meter or so above the human footprints, so that just helps to confirm the whole story.”
"New research into the ancient footprints at White Sands National Park establishes they are the earliest-known evidence of humans in North America.
Trails of footprints called "ghost tracks" have been seen in the White Sands area for years, but usually only when the ground was wet.NPS, USGS and Bournemoth University"
"The footprints are the earliest firm evidence for humans in the Americas and show people must have arrived here before the last Ice Age."
The team has studied the footprints at White Sands National Park for years, following the tracks with ground-penetrating radar and excavating trenches.
From the article:
"The tracks at one location have been revealed as both the earliest known footprints and the oldest firm evidence of humans anywhere in the Americas, showing that people lived there between 21,000 and 23,000 years ago — several thousand years earlier than scientists once believed."
[...]
“We’d been suspicious of the age for a while, and so now we finally have that it’s really exciting,” Bustos said. “One of the neat things is that you can see mammoth prints in the layers a meter or so above the human footprints, so that just helps to confirm the whole story.”
"New research into the ancient footprints at White Sands National Park establishes they are the earliest-known evidence of humans in North America.
Trails of footprints called "ghost tracks" have been seen in the White Sands area for years, but usually only when the ground was wet.NPS, USGS and Bournemoth University"
Fossil footprints show humans in North America more than 21,000 years ago
The footprints, the earliest firm evidence for humans in the Americas, show that people must have arrived here before the last Ice Age.
www.nbcnews.com