These Ancient Footprints Rewrite Human History

[Ptah]

WHITE SANDS NATIONAL PARK

The shimmering dunes of White Sands National Park harbor an extraordinary secret: fossilized human footprints that suggest human presence in the Americas as much as 10,000 years earlier than previously believed. How did these footprints in the sand manage to survive for so long? And why is their discovery changing everything we thought we knew about human history in the region?

Untold Earth explores the seeming impossibilities behind our planet’s strangest, most unique natural wonders. From fragile, untouched ecosystems to familiar but unexplained occurrences in our own backyard, this series chases insight into natural phenomena through the voices that know them best.

Untold Earth is produced in partnership with Atlas Obscura and Nature.

[erronis]

1. Thanks for posting. Nice to see that science is still being studied and broadcast.

I'm not looking forward to the impending dark ages of stupidity.

[bucolic_frolic]

2. Nicely symmetrical long boats.

[progressoid]

3. Rec!!!

[Demnation]

4. Excellent. Wonderful post. Thanks.

[FailureToCommunicate]

5. Amazing find! We were just there at White Sands this summer, and the find is

well displayed, as is the ongoing research in the northern (non public) area of this extraordinary National Park.