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Ancient Footprints Push Back Date of Human Arrival in the Americas (nytimes.com)
6 points by andyxor on Sept 24, 2021 | hide | past | favorite | 2 comments


> 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.

Previously, a consensus was that humans arrived ~13,000 year ago, at the end of the last ice age





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