The question went mainstream in 2021, when scientists said they had found the oldest human footprints ever discovered in North America, about 23,000 years, sparking debate and questions about ...

North America’s oldest human footprints, found in White Sands National Park in New Mexico. Photo courtesy of the National Park Service/U.S. Geological Survey/Bournemouth University, U.K.

Older dates have been posited for a human presence in North America. In 2017, a team of researchers suggested there was evidence of human activity on the continent a staggering 130,000 years ago ...

LAS CRUCES — The oldest known human footprints in North America have been discovered at White Sands National Park in New Mexico. By carbon dating seeds embedded in the footprints, the U.S ...

Humans were present in North America 10,000 years earlier than previously thought ... The discovery rewrites a significant chapter in the story of human migration to the Americas, offering the ...

A 2021 study caused a stir by claiming that a set of fossilized human footprints were 20,000 years old – much earlier earlier than humans were thought to have set foot in North America. Now two ...

Anthropologists found 60 fossilized human footprints in New Mexico that date back 23,000 years. The finding shows humans occupied North America thousands of years earlier than we thought.; And ...

The footprints, recently unearthed by anthropologists on an island in British Columbia, Canada, are the oldest known human track marks in North America, according to a new study, and provide more ...

North America lacked the necessary conditions for survival,” said Rust. “This underscores the significance of accessible resources for our non-human primate relatives during times of drastic ...

The discovery proves that humans were in North America nearly 15,000 years earlier than thought, scientists have revealed. The mammoth-butchering site in New Mexico is seen in an undated photo.

Blame North America Megafauna Extinction On Climate Change, Not Human Ancestors. ScienceDaily . Retrieved June 3, 2025 from www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2001 / 10 / 011025072315.htm ...