Earliest evidence of humans in the Americas confirmed in new study
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Earliest evidence of humans in the Americas confirmed in new U of A study
A new paper by a University of Arizona geoarchaeologist agrees with findings from four years ago that footprints discovered in New Mexico are between 21,000 and 23,000 years old – as much as 10,000 years older than the previously known oldest signs of human culture in the Americas.