Fossilized Footprints - White Sands National Park (U.S. National …
Sep 24, 2024 · Footprints across White Sands have been found coexisting and interacting with extinct ice age animals. One set of footprints shows what appears to be humans stalking a giant sloth. This is demonstrated by human footprints being found inside the footprints of the sloth as they were tracked.
White Sands fossil footprints - Wikipedia
The White Sands fossil footprints are a set of fossilized human footprints discovered in 2009 in the White Sands National Park in New Mexico. In 2021 they were radiocarbon dated, based on seeds found in the sediment layers, to between 21,000 and 23,000 years ago. [1]
The discovery of ancient human footprints in White Sands …
Nov 30, 2021 · These fossilized prints were made between 23,000 and 21,000 years ago along the shores of an ice age lake that once filled the Tularosa Basin in south-central New Mexico, in what is now White Sands National Park.
Independent age estimates resolve the controversy of ancient …
Oct 5, 2023 · In 2021, fossilized footprints from White Sands National Park in New Mexico were dated to between 20,000 and 23,000 years ago, providing key evidence for earlier occupation, although this finding was controversial.
Scientists say they’ve confirmed evidence that humans arrived in …
Oct 5, 2023 · The 61 dated prints, which were discovered in the Tularosa Basin, near the edge of an ancient lake in White Sands National Park, were made at a time when many scientists think that massive ice...
Paleontology - White Sands National Park (U.S. National Park Service)
Jan 22, 2020 · Clues of this past oasis, with its wet climate, giant lakes, and diverse animal inhabitants, are found in fossilized footprints left behind by the ice age giants that once called the Tularosa Basin home.
Study confirms age of oldest fossil human footprints in North …
Oct 5, 2023 · ALAMOGORDO, N.M. — New research reaffirms that human footprints found in White Sands National Park, NM, date to the Last Glacial Maximum, placing humans in North America thousands of years earlier than once thought.
Fossilized Footprints Reveal Human Habitation of North …
Sep 23, 2021 · The fossilized human footprints were buried in multiple layers of gypsum soil on a large playa in White Sands National Park. Seeds embedded in the footprints were radiocarbon dated and analyzed by the U.S. Geological Survey to establish their age.
Features - Ghost Tracks of White Sands - Archaeology Magazine ...
White Sands has the world’s largest collection of fossilized Ice Age footprints, numbering in the hundreds of thousands. For several years, a team of archaeologists, geographers,...
White Sands fossil footprints suggest longer human history in …
Oct 7, 2023 · The footprints are among thousands made by humans, mammoths, giant sloths and others in White Sands National Park, an ethereal landscape in southern New Mexico where waves of white gypsum...