Humans trod the landscape of North America thousands of years earlier than previously thought, according to new research that confirms the antiquity of fossilized footprints at White Sands National Park in New Mexico using two further dating approaches.

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    1 year ago

    Every year they seem to push that number further and further back.

    It’d be interesting to see some of the tools they brought with them

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      1 year ago

      Given that the only record we have of them are some footprints in the middle of a desert, I think finding their tools is going to be a little more challenging.

      More than anything, though, I think this demonstrates just how non-permanent human civilisation is.

    • AbouBenAdhem@lemmy.world
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      Every year they seem to push that number further and further back.

      This result is just confirming the same dating for the same fossils published two years ago, using different methods.