For almost a century, artifacts found near Clovis, New Mexico, were accepted by scientists as evidence the earliest American was Clovis Man, who once thrived on the Llano Estacado.
Clare Connelly has helped excavate a site at White Sands National Park that has pushed back by thousands of years scientists’ understanding of when people inhabited the area.
Preserved footprints found in New Mexico’s Lake Otero Basin were dated to the last ice age between 23 and 21 thousand years ago, according to a study published in September 2021 in the journal Nature. - HeritageDaily - Archaeology News