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What Do Ancient Tracks in New Mexico Tell Us About the First Americans? - Evidence of Ice Age Humans in the Americas | Sleepy Facts About History
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For decades, archaeology relied on a tidy origin story for the human occupation of the Americas: the Clovis people arrived around thirteen thousand years ago by crossing an ice-free corridor. That model dominated the field until researchers uncovered barefoot human footprints pressed into ancient mudflats in New Mexico, dating back to the height of the last Ice Age, over twenty thousand years ago. This episode explores how these tracks at White Sands National Park challenged the…
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