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North America’s Oldest Human Footprints Discovered In New Mexico (23,000+ Years Old)

Newly release research from White Sands National Park reveals evidence of human occupation beginning at least 23,000 years ago, thousands of years earlier than previously thought. NPR reports a team of researchers led by Matthew Bennett of Bournemouth University in England examined a set of human footprints preserved on an ancient lakeshore in New Mexico’s […]