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The White Sands footprints are a set of ancient 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 White Sands fossil footprints in the Tularosa Basin are estimated by the National Park Service to be 21 000 to 23 000 years old and include footprints possibly showing humans stalking a giant sloth. [1] The footprints are located at the shore of an ice age era lake. As of November 2021, 61 fossil footprints have been found at the site. [2]
The discovery of fossilized footprints made in what’s now New Mexico was a bombshell moment for archaeology, seemingly rewriting a chapter of the human story. New research is offering further ...
The footprints were discovered at the edge of an ancient lakebed in White Sands National Park and date back to between 21,000 and 23,000 years ago, according to research published Thursday in the ...
The first footprints were found in a dry lake bed in White Sands National Park in 2009. Scientists at the U.S. Geological Survey recently analyzed seeds stuck in the footprints to determine their ...
Some entries in this list are notable for a single, unique find, while others are notable for the large number of fossils found there. Many of the entries in this list are considered Lagerstätten (sedimentary deposits that exhibits extraordinary fossils with exceptional preservation—sometimes including preserved soft tissues).
Researchers now believe ancient human footprints discovered in the ground at New Mexico's White Sands National Park date 23,000 years back to the Ice Age. The unearthed footprints, discovered in ...
Fossil human footprints provide an alternative source of evidence for human presence when excavated from an in situ sedimentary sequence with good chronological control [e.g., (12–14)]. The authors state that fossil human footprints, in general, can be evidence of human presence. They do not say that the White Sands footprints are fossil ...