Posted on 09/24/2021 4:27:02 AM PDT by BenLurkin
The footprints at White Sands were dated by examining the seeds of an aquatic plant that once thrived along the shores of the dried-up lake, Ruppia cirrhosa, commonly known as ditchgrass. According to research published Thursday in the journal Science and co-authored by Bustos, the ancient ditchgrass seeds were found in layers of hard earth both above and below the many human footprints at the site, and they were radiocarbon-dated to determine their age.
The tracks at one location have been revealed as both the earliest known footprints and the oldest firm evidence of humans anywhere in the Americas, showing that people lived there 21,000 to 23,000 years ago — several thousand years earlier than scientists once believed.
Fossilized human footprints have now been found throughout the east of the national park, where the bed of a “paleo-lake,” which is now dry, supplies the gypsum-rich earth that is eroded by the wind to create the enormous white dunes for which the region is famous.
The term “Last Glacial Maximum” is how scientists refer to the height of the last ice age, about 20,000 to 26,000 years ago.
It has long been debated whether humans arrived in the Americas by a northern route from Siberia before or after the Last Glacial Maximum, when vast sheets of ice would have made migration along the Pacific Coast or through western Canada impossible.
The ancient footprints at White Sands answer that question, suggesting that they may have arrived up to 30,000 years ago, thousands of years before the height of the ice age,
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“Fossilized human footprints have now been found throughout the east of the national park”
They wanted to arrive early and get a good parking spot. Kind of like the Griswolds. Unfortunately the park was closed for maintenance, but that’s another story.
I take it these are the people that "native American" Indians exterminated when when they came here.
Gell that to Ken Ham!!
Thought you might be interested
Huh?
Try well over 100,000 years ago.
Pre ‘Native Americans’? Can’t be...
It puzzles me how you can determine that a creature has a soul by looking at a footprint...
WOW! Just yesterday they said 23,000. LOL!
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Have an awesome weekend.
Never forget — “The science is settled.”
Hmmmm. “footprints” is exactly what I searched.
No, if the joke didn’t land, I’m not going to explain it.
Insert John Candy pic…
Well, whenever it was posted or published, hasn’t it been speculated for years that there were folks in north and south America for 20,000 years or longer? In other words, it doesn’t seem like there is anything new about this other than footprints. Am I wrong?
Yes! “The moose out front should have told you.”
Their ancestors. The genetics timeline matches up. Up till now the explanation for the different genetics of Native Americans was explained by the Berengia Standstill hypothesis. This find blows that up.
“In this scenario, the Asian emigrants probably reached Beringia before the full brunt of the Last Glacial Maximum, a period of glaciers and fierce cold that lasted from roughly 27,000–19,000 years ago. Once in Beringia, the emigrants could go no further, thanks to the ice sheets blocking the door to the rest of the Americas. Tamm’s group hypothesized that people were isolated in Beringia for up to 15,000 years until they could venture into the unknown lands to the east.” https://www.pnas.org/content/114/22/5554
It’s an act of hubris and idiocy to think that people in the last ice age were somehow stupider or different in their wanderlust than people today. Today people build boats and navigate over the horizon in search of adventure. You can’t assume that, in 1,500 human generations that never happened. Of COURSE it happened ....many many times.
LOL! Been there done that. Some folks may have missed the earlier one. Maybe it should have been on the New Mexico ping list too. :-}
Exactly. There’s no land bridge from Southeast Asia to Australia, but the Aborigines arrived there some 50,000 years ago.
Due to the Ice Age the sea level of that time was up to 300 feet lower, making what is now Malaysia, Sumatra, and Borneo a vast peninsula, but even so, there were over the horizon water gaps that meant people made boats and went out to sea beyond any land the could see.
Similarly, people used boats to go up along the coast from Japan all the way to the Aleutians, which were much bigger because of the lowered sea level, and from there on to Alaska, the coast of Canada and eventually the rest of the Americas.
It would be a good life. Camps on the beach, plenty of seals and fish to hunt and eat, and adventure galore. They wouldn’t have to go the whole distance, either. Only a couple of ten miles per lifetime... It would only take 2000 or so years to go from the Aleutians to Tierra del Fuego.
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