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c. 21,000 BC · New Mexico, USA · Americas · Exploration

People walk beside mammoths millennia 'too early'

Dozens of human footprints by an ancient lake in New Mexico were dated, using seeds in the layers, to 21,000–23,000 years ago. If correct, people were in the Americas long before the 13,000–16,000 years once assumed; mammoth and giant sloth tracks lie nearby.

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Human footprints in New Mexico are dated to 21,000–23,000 years ago, millennia before people were thought to have reached the Americas. Mammoth and giant sloth tracks lie beside them, though the dating is still debated. Share →