History with Kayleigh | Oldest Footprints Discovered North America. Tularosa Basin, White Sands, New Mexico. @HistoryWithKayleigh | Uploaded October 2021 | Updated October 2024, 11 minutes ago.
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We’ve all suspected that humans arrived in the Americas much earlier than was long thought by the researchers and historians.
The ancient footprints scattered along the dried up lakebed of Lake Otero at White Sands in New Mexico have been confirmed by scientists to have been dated as the earliest known footprints in North America.
This conformation pushes back the timeline of humans arriving in North America that was believed to have happened around 13,000 years ago by at least 10,000 years to the humans arriving by at least 23,000 years ago.
Some footprints found here might even be 30,000 years old which would push the timeline back some 20,000 years, although this is not yet confirmed.
For a long time there was a large lake known as Lake Otero in New Mexico, the climate was more wet and the area was covered in vegetation, grasslands stretching for miles.
This lush green area became the primary hunting grounds for fearsome predators like dire wolves and the American lion, they preyed on the plant eaters that grazed in the area of the Tularosa Basin.
When the last ice age ended around 12.000 years ago the lake started to evaporate, rain and snow melt carried dissolved gypsum from the mountain ranges surrounding the lake into the basin.
The question one can ask is; how long have humans been living in the Tularosa Basin? And this latest discovered confirmation shows that humans have been inhabiting the area during the ice age’s megafauna for a lot longer than we previously thought.
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Sources: nbcnews.com/science/science-news/fossil-footprints-show-humans-north-america-21000-years-ago-rcna2169?cid=sm_npd_nn_fb_ma&fbclid=IwAR1ESO_pa2Vv87B5T1aas-l4Bhxbqjr_LV11LT0Sd7ssnBjPooxSoi6pA80
science.org/doi/10.1126/science.abg7586
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We’ve all suspected that humans arrived in the Americas much earlier than was long thought by the researchers and historians.
The ancient footprints scattered along the dried up lakebed of Lake Otero at White Sands in New Mexico have been confirmed by scientists to have been dated as the earliest known footprints in North America.
This conformation pushes back the timeline of humans arriving in North America that was believed to have happened around 13,000 years ago by at least 10,000 years to the humans arriving by at least 23,000 years ago.
Some footprints found here might even be 30,000 years old which would push the timeline back some 20,000 years, although this is not yet confirmed.
For a long time there was a large lake known as Lake Otero in New Mexico, the climate was more wet and the area was covered in vegetation, grasslands stretching for miles.
This lush green area became the primary hunting grounds for fearsome predators like dire wolves and the American lion, they preyed on the plant eaters that grazed in the area of the Tularosa Basin.
When the last ice age ended around 12.000 years ago the lake started to evaporate, rain and snow melt carried dissolved gypsum from the mountain ranges surrounding the lake into the basin.
The question one can ask is; how long have humans been living in the Tularosa Basin? And this latest discovered confirmation shows that humans have been inhabiting the area during the ice age’s megafauna for a lot longer than we previously thought.
Music: Adrian von Ziegler
Sources: nbcnews.com/science/science-news/fossil-footprints-show-humans-north-america-21000-years-ago-rcna2169?cid=sm_npd_nn_fb_ma&fbclid=IwAR1ESO_pa2Vv87B5T1aas-l4Bhxbqjr_LV11LT0Sd7ssnBjPooxSoi6pA80
science.org/doi/10.1126/science.abg7586
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