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New research confirms that human footprints found in New Mexico two years ago date back more than 20,000 years, to the last time that glaciers covered most of North America.
The proposed age of these remarkable footprints was announced in 2021 by U.S. Geological Survey research geologists, but the finding was so extraordinary that it demanded additional testing.
A new study coauthored by a UC Berkeley professor provides "seemingly incontrovertible proof" that humans arrived in the Americas thousands of years earlier than scientists have long thought.