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New findings at Whitesands

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Earliest definitive evidence of people in Americas

By Paul Rincon
Science editor, BBC News website

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2 hours ago
 
 
Footprints at White Sandsimage source, Bournemouth University
image captionThe footprints belonged to teenagers and children who lived between 23,000 and 21,000 years ago

Humans reached the Americas at least 7,000 years earlier than previously thought, according to new findings.

w.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-58638854

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Here's some more on that finding....

https://phys.org/news/2021-09-earliest-evidence-human-americas.html

Earliest evidence of human activity found in the Americas

Thomas Urban conducts a magnetometer survey of mammoth footprints at White Sands. Credit: David Bustos / Cornell University   

Earliest evidence of human activity found in the Americas

Footprints found at White Sands National Park in New Mexico, providing the earliest evidence of human activity in the Americas. Credit: Cornell University

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