23,000 year old human footprints at White Sand Nat'l Park

This story hasn’t gotten much traction, but it’s fascinating and hopefully further supporting evidence will be found now that anthropologists have been fired up to take a closer look at other neglected 20-25 thousand year old exposures. There should be much more evidence out there.

Especially since the fundamental notion of humans populating the Americas via the coastal route, The Kelp Highway, makes all the sense in the world. And why not, it’s what people did, some always wanted to get away from the others, so they followed coastlines. With accumulating generations pretty every coastline saw humans appear at one time or another.

Ancient footprints in New Mexico’s White Sands National Park reveal new evidence of Ice Age humans that walked the land alongside enormous ground sloths and mammoths—thousands of years earlier than archaeologists thought people were in the Americas.

Ancient footprints could be oldest traces of humans in the Americas

  • September 23, 2021

Ancient footprints could be oldest traces of humans in the Americas

Children left tracks in New Mexico around 22,500 years ago — thousands of years before most scientists thought humans settled in North America.