Ichnofossil markings accompanying ancient human footprints at White Sands, New Mexico, suggests the use of the travois, a simple transport technology resembling a sled, nearly 22,000 years agoCredit: Bennett, Reynolds, et al/Quaternary Science Advances/Science Direct
Nah, BIG snakes slithering through the mud left that track.
“The footprints sit at the bottom of a dry lake bed, reminders of an ancient time when New Mexico was not a desert, but had been covered in wetlands.” WHAT?? HUH?? The climate changed? All by itself? How could that be?
I would have been really impressed if they have found evidence of a 22,000 year old wheel. Why did the Mesopotamians invent the wheel and not the Native Americans? Native Americans had 5,000 more years after the Mesopotamians invented the wheel to invent it themselves. How could a civilization go on for 5,000 more years and NOT invent a wheel?
Just another example of how ‘stone aged’ the indigenous populations of North and South America were. They didn’t have bronze or iron metals, they didn’t have wheels and they didn’t even have horses... They apparently ate them all long before civilization arrived in 1492.
But they could drag things around... That’s pretty cool.
That could be the track of a one legged cross country skier...
There were/is tracks of human foot prints crossing across some sort of huge reptile all frozen in rock in Texas, dates back thousands of centuries.
Early rickshaws? That would give the homeless something to do.
Indigenous Americans also avoided inventing a written language for 5,000 years.
And, indigenous Americans were thousands of years behind Europe in metallurgy.
When I had a double college major of Spanish and Archaeology, I was amused that the textbooks of the time stated humans came across the Bering Straight 10,000 years ago. I immediately knew that people had entered North America earlier than that, we just had not found the evidence yet. One of the wondrous and frustrating parts of the archaeology is that we know there is more evidence under our feet.
While I was privileged to actually excavate on the US West Coast, and even in Central America, I soon learned that archaeology cannot pay a mortgage, or any other bill for that matter.
While we no longer travel in Mexico, the Mexico City subway system was fun. When you are walking from train to train, you use these walkway tunnels. Mexico City is the ancient Aztec capital. When they were built the subway and walkways, when they came upon something Aztec, they would clear off the object and label it. Passersby could stop and enjoy it.
Dirt bikes. The cannibalistic prehistoric tribes had dirt bike races there. Note the faint tread marks about 4 inches above the top end of the ruler down in the rut.
The “SCIENCE” shoulda been named “yoga” because it likes to streeeeeetch
