![]() White Sands National Park protects and preserves the world’s largest gypsum dunefield, at least 23,000 years of archaeology, adaptive flora and fauna, as well as Works Progress Administration-era historic pueblo buildings. Geological Survey, Bournemouth University, University of Arizona and Cornell University, in connection with the park’s Native American partners, have collaborated and consulted on this research. Scientists from White Sands National Park, the National Park Service, U.S. A recent study led by scientists with The University of Texas at Austin. More information about the park’s fossilized footprints is available at. Its in New Mexicoa place where most archaeological evidence does not place humans until tens of thousands of years later. In addition to human footprints, tracks from the Columbian mammoth, saber-toothed cat, dire wolf, and other ice age animals have been discovered. White Sands National Park contains the world’s largest-known collection of Pleistocene age (ice age) fossilized footprints in the world and has been recognized as a megatracksite since 2014. "This study illustrates the process of science - new evidence can shift long held paradigms," said USGS Acting Rocky Mountain Regional Director Allison Shipp. The findings are detailed in an article published in the journal Science. The research dramatically extends the range for the coexistence of humans and Pleistocene (ice age) megafauna and confirms that humans were present in North America before the major glacial advances at the height of the last ice age closed migration routes from Asia. ![]() Geological Survey to establish their age. Seeds embedded in the footprints were radiocarbon dated and analyzed by the U.S. But this transformation in Christ doesn’t happen overnight. The fossilized human footprints were buried in multiple layers of gypsum soil on a large playa in White Sands National Park. Thousands of years later, though we walk on roads of pavement and not dust, we are still called to be disciplesto follow our Rabbi, Jesus Christ, so closely that we are covered with his life, changed, and made new. “These incredible discoveries illustrate that White Sands National Park is not only a world-class destination for recreation but is also a wonderful scientific laboratory that has yielded groundbreaking, fundamental research,” said Superintendent Marie Sauter. The discovery reveals evidence of human occupation in the Tularosa Basin beginning at least 23,000 years ago, thousands of years earlier than previously thought. Around 1524 Italian explorer Giovanni da Verrazzano became the first European to arrive in the region. Thousands of years later, Native American tribes including the Lenape, Munsee (or Minsi), and Unalachtigo lived on the land. ![]() Long before the sand dunes formed at White Sands National Park, ice age teenagers left their footprints in the mud, only to be discovered thousands of years later.Ĭontact: – New scientific research conducted at White Sands National Park in New Mexico has uncovered the oldest known human footprints in North America. The first people came to the area that’s now New Jersey at least 12,000 years ago. ![]()
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