Humans May Have Lived in North America Earlier Than Thought

Scattered seeds help reveal when ancient humans first left footprints in North America.
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[@feeberizer]

I live about an hour from White Sands NP and it's an amazing place. I'm glad they're keeping the exact location of these footprints secret along with the giant sloth footprints in the same area. They must be protected.

[@chipwalter4490]

Have you not considered these could be very large meerkat?

[@jay-elinthehouse4503]

How cauld a foot print Be thousand 9f years old than its inside out

[@user-dq2ly5ut9j]

​@@chipwalter4490I have yes

[@DontFeedTheTrolls]

My grandfather was a Geologist/Paleontologist with US Geological Survey named Byron J. Sharp who studied ancient burn pits in Utah that had man-made artifacts and debris scattered all around them. He estimated the age to be around 20,000 years or more. I think he would be please to learn of these recent findings. His hypothesis was not well supported in the old days but I always assumed he knew what he was talking about because he was such an extraordinary man. Thanks for the video upload and keep up the great work!

[@community1949]

I have always thought that Canada, North America, Central America, & South America have been inhabited about 30,000 to 40,000 years because of all of the numerous indigenous cultures, locations, and languages. It goes back way longer than we have been told by scientists.

[@gmotionedc5412]

This means a separate branch of human ancestry from the African branch!! The Americas must have had its own start probably with eskimos who then moved further and further south over 10s of thousands of years! Simply astounding!!😳😱

[@anthonymckinney2868]

Black Folks

[@michaelcharlesthearchangel]

​@@anthonymckinney2868 you have it backwards, when Our Ænamerican (Native American) and Polynesian ancestors left Africa, We left behind in Africa those of Us who chose not to come. We didn't come from you, you came from Us as We moved on with the way of the Tree of Life.

[@devilzaid6666]

@@michaelcharlesthearchangelwe didn’t come from Africa not all people had African dna in them what are you talking about, that theory has been debunked long ago African has always been abused and used as slaves in history and those millions of African slaves all over the world were r.ped or married their master and had children that’s why so many people have African dna not because all started in Africa 😂

[@eduardoescobar1906]

​@michaelcharles6802 Yeah,and I'm also tired of afrocentric theory people going to every Olmec/Maya video or documentary here on youtube and insist on all of us to believe their nonsense.

[@angellacanfora]

As a student of anthropology, I trekked to the Calico Early Man Site in the SoCal desert near Barstow in 2010. I spoke to the lead archaeologist who sat down with me and explained that he was locked in a battle with the BLM (Bureau of Land Management) over the fate of the site. His claim was that the site provided evidence that humans arrived in the U.S. much earlier than what the current theories held. The BLM was working to shut the decades' long excavation down due to supposed unsafe conditions. He claimed that that was all a farce, it was no more unsafe than any excavation. Long story short, he felt that he other scientists who wanted to debunk his theory were goading the BLM into shutting it all down. It has, in fact, since been shut down, but the evidence he sighted - along with the fact that none other than Dr. Louis Leakey lead excavations in the 1960s - convinced me he was onto something.

[@royrowland5763]

I have seen the Early Man Site sign probably 100 times when driving somewhere from L.A., but I have never found time to stop. So, this site is no longer accessible?

[@angellacanfora]

@@royrowland5763 The BLM shut it down indefinitely in 2019.

[@johnnynephrite6147]

@@royrowland5763 Don't listen to this conspiracy theory crackpot. She also thinks Trump won.

[@hhheee3939]

Probably 250,000-200,000 yrs ago. Thats why.

[@MTRVPatrick]

That would check out with the people who don't want their theories to be disproven with data. We have seen it for a long time, which is what Bretz and others experienced. So much vitriol and anger to anyone who questions any other narrative than their....regardless of data or truth.

[@JonnoPlays]

PBS literally can't produce too much content on this subject for me. Great work as always!

[@weseehowcommiegoogleis3770]

PBS are to political to be trusted.

[@thedominion6643]

@@weseehowcommiegoogleis3770 ok.

[@april5666]

I wish people would turn their critical eyes back onto all the conspiracy theories they believe instead I’d doubting sources like public broadcasting stations - sigh. SMH

[@somerandomnification]

This goes well with the Nova episode from about 15 years ago called "America's Stone Age Explorers". That episode talks about other evidence of pre-Clovis humans in North and South America.

[@NYCmob79]

Clovis is an agenda to keep the stolen lands

[@Alusnovalotus]

That explains one of them.

[@chucklesthered2338]

25 years ago I did a lot of rock hounding in the mountains of Western North Carolina. My adventures led me to meeting a local legend and visited him in his mini-museum quite often. It was filled with specimens that he had found over the last 65+ years of mining. He also had a very nice arrowhead collection, all of which he found himself all over the Appalachian mountains. One day as I was exiting his little museum I noticed an old fold-out National Geographic chart hanging on the wall just to the right of the door. The chart had pictures or renderings of arrowheads on the far left and cascading down as the age and style changed. with the approximate age to the right of them. I do not remember the exact starting date (I vaguely remember 2,500 years) but there were about 10 different styles that represented the different ages. However, I will never forget the very last one... 15 thousand years ago. Right next to each arrowhead rendering, my old timer friend had glued a matching real arrowhead that he had found over the years. The rendering for the 15k year old arrowhead had a question mark instead of an arrowhead. He had matching arrowheads for each year... including 15k years. I asked him how he knew it was from 15k years ago, he told me that he had sent a picture of it to National Geographic. Weeks later they sent an arrowhead expert to his home to see the arrowhead. He agreed to let him take it back with him to study further. That particular arrowhead he had pinned to the poster instead of gluing because he felt it was special and someday he wanted to have it looked at someday. It was hand delivered months later and was told it was definitely 15 thousand+ years old. And possibly the oldest found in america as of that date. When he died a few years later his son moved the entire collection to his home and created a small, but very personal exhibit with the mineral specimens and that National Geographic chart with the 15 thousand year old arrowhead.

[@somerandomnification]

@@chucklesthered2338 That's a very cool story. You should definitely have a look at "America's Stone Age Explorers". There are some very intriguing comparisons of pointed tools from around the world. I miss North Carolina. Back when you were rock hounding there, I was rock climbing there.

[@challopea]

@@chucklesthered2338 this is very very bad-none of these Stone Age stuff is worth a dime when removed from context. Ppl can no longer date them. Don’t remove these finds. Leave them in situation!

[@spencerkimble3824]

I’m in an anthropology class 20 some odd years back and they’re covering monte verde, a 14.5k year old site in Tierra del Fuego and I said to my professor “we had to have some by the coastal water route, thousands of years before the ice-free corridor opened up in Canada” He said “you’re right, but you have to prove it”

[@FacesintheStone]

Yep, it’s all about the evidence.

[@bakenumber4]

Smart professor

[@oneofthesun1676]

Those are european prints.

[@reeyees50]

Yup, just gotta prove it. We waiting..

[@ingloriousbetch4302]

​@reeyees50 clearly you've had blinders on.

[@cloudbloom]

I'll save the suspense, the carbon dating is between 21,000-23,000 years ago

[@caseyhoward8261]

Thanx! Lol

[@JonnoPlays]

The video is only 4 minutes long lol 😂

[@mk-apache6161]

Oh u were there too

[@bigedslobotomy]

@@JonnoPlays still, it took them to 3:30 to answer this question

[@Itsme-eo9hh]

You must be fun at parties 😁

[@ronkirk5099]

This is about 7000 years older than the 13,000 year old Clovis spear tips which were previously thought to be the oldest evidence of human arrival in North America.

[@michaeldeierhoi4096]

Actually 9,000 years earlier because the oldest tracks in this video report were 22,000 years old. And the first Clovis points were also found in New Mexico!!

[@yesterdayschunda1760]

The clovis first theory really held back this area of Archeology for a long time, you were laughed at for looking for anything older.

[@FacesintheStone]

And now you’re laughed at when you find Egyptian style artifacts, photo realistic portraits of people on stone, bird shaped rocks that everybody can see… The archaeologists diagnose you with a condition called Pareidolia… it’s outrageous..

[@yesterdayschunda1760]

@@FacesintheStone Fairly sure there was a worldwide civilization at least 5000 years before anciet egypt and it spanned the entire old equator which is why you can draw a line through all the ancient sites (People 5000 years ago built on top of the dead civilisation)

[@OptimiSkeptic]

@@FacesintheStone I admit that scientists can be abrasive jerks, way too much like school yard children, and that has got to stop. However, scientists must restrain their fields with skepticism. If the evidence doesn't support anything more the pareidolia, then the accepted explanation has to be pareidolia until there is enough credible evidence to support otherwise. Without that, we have nothing but useless untested data. That's not science. It's religious belief.

[@jamesetal7088]

Humans were in NJ as early as 1964. I know. I have the toll receipts.

[@lvelez1999]

LoL

[@lewispaine4589]

Fascinating, they're really just scratching the surface with figuring out this ancient mystery

[@FacesintheStone]

I agree Lewis, but if you make a discovery they get very jealous, very upset… I once respected archaeology. I thought that if you found something amazing they would want to do something about it… The political system that’s tied to archaeology, individuals careers, the mudslinging and the dismissals. It hurts us all, citizens control the history, takes dedicated beings who really have a passion for this and don’t have to worry about their career being ruined because someone above them doesn’t agree… It’s not a huge conspiracy theory, it’s just a broken system.

[@manchesterexplorer8519]

Unfortunately universities are stuck in a Dogma state that was written 100 years ago . Just using Google Earth alone is a better tool than anything they had 100 years ago to disprove a ton of things .

[@alberteinsteinthejew]

I knew Graham Hancock was right all the time, he just need more evidences like this

[@gymbruh1824]

Dmmmmmtttttttt

[@rmrbush]

First guy I thought about when watching this. Starting to believe in him more.

[@snieves4]

This does nothing to prove hancocks baseless theories.

[@rebeccahenderson7761]

This is fantastic. I really admire this field of study.

[@c.erine78]

I love this, watched the whole video and hope there will be more follow up. It proves our Native people were here many, many years ago.

[@EmeraldLavigne]

And that Columbus and the colonizers are even worse monsters than we thought.

[@rsi4561]

you watched the whole 4 minutes.. FOUR MINUTES? wow.. how many times did you check your phone during it?

[@hamburgler227]

I wouldn't assume that the ancient peoples referred to in this video are the same as those that we know as Native Americans. Could be from entirely different waves of migration and hence, different genetic groups.

[@johnburns8660]

Maye the ancestors of the current Natives displaced them or wiped them out.

[@k1j2f30]

@@vincentsaiz We are all related, and unless you were born on another planet, we are all native descendants! As a self taught, amateur archeologist, I have long struggled with this ideology.

[@A3Kr0n]

In 20,000 years people will be looking at rock layers and wonder what that thin band of radioactive soot is.

[@davidbarlow6860]

Is that above or below the layer of plastic that is currently being laid down.

[@Itssmial_Ova]

For real, We've already laid down a detectable band of plastics all around the world. Maybe that's all we'll amount to. But we've definitely left a mark that will be here for millions of years. We Were Here.

[@thetransplanter3337]

Not news.The theory that Clovis man represented the first American humans , 12,000 years ago, was debunked at least a decade ago. This video deserves to be re-titled.

[@Lethgar_Smith]

Changes to history must be done slowly and gradually so the casual observer is not aware that anything is happening and by the time the change is complete they will believe it was always that way. People can be shocked into such an existential crisis they reach the point where they lose the will to seek out happiness. I call it the Rick Sanchez syndrome. Aliens, Bigfoot, life after death and reincarnation are all real things that exists but we are shielded from that knowledge because their presence in our reality would be too damaging to our psyche's at this time.

[@pedronchoxgrc19]

This is 22k years old

[@hera7884]

Did she really just call ancient humans “critters”?

[@ttmallard]

The oldest prints may yet be found. Clovis happens ~10,000yr/10ky later, they were made during a glacial maximum, the Wisconsin ended ~17ky ago. These 1st ppl were likely coastal, BeringStrait was dry, sealevel didn't rise to that until 12ky ago, coastal Beringia, the land Bridge south side a cold desert, little snow, coastal living was liveable with Arctic tech methods & tools. About 36ky-32ky habitation sites on the Kamchatka Peninsula gave plenty of time to cross east by dispersion, not exploring, during a brief warming lasting 1.2-1.5ky with Holocene weather to get to S.America's south by 26ky ago likely. If coastal travel it's submerged, most of it destroyed going under the surf zone for centuries. These footprints are like at Laetoli, those 1.2My old ... very pristine find between datable strata, it had 18"/46cm to the 21ky layer 👍

[@fordhouse8b]

I feel like you are providing valuable information, but in a poorly written format, with lots of professional jargon and shorthand that is indecipherable for a layman with normal reading comprehension.

[@hamburgler227]

It's also quite possible early that peoples traveled by boat along the northern glaciers that connected Western Europe via Iceland to Eastern North America.

[@ttmallard]

Yes, the Viking sites east coast to Midwest set timelines mid-1300s, the western coastal settlers likely crossed Beringia during a 1200y-1500y warming to Holocene temps cica 32kt-36ky ago with dispersion, not exploring, that's plenty of time to cross to N.America. 🌏

[@spanqueluv9er]

The “Clovis” were in no way the first people- that’s the whole point of this video, genius.🙄🤦‍♂️🤡

[@spanqueluv9er]

@@fordhouse8b They are basically an eloquent idiot- don’t take them seriously. They didn’t understand what these finds mean.

[@PronatorTendon]

Please check out Randall Carlson, he consistently produces a wealth of information, though it isn't centered specifically on this topic, it's more about recognizing present day geologic features as relics of past catastrophes. He also discusses the Clovis people, the Dryas periods, mass extinctions of megamammals, and the possibility of much of the calamity of antiquity was due to impacts by extraterrestrial objects

[@papwithanhatchet902]

There is evidence that humans have been in North America between 30,000-32,000 years ago (Chiquihuite Cave, Mexico and Bluefish Caves, Yukon). According to oral history of the aboriginal peoples of the Northwest Pacific, it’s even longer than that.

[@karaDee2363]

Oral history is not evidence

[@JCO2002]

Oral history is mostly imaginative myth.

[@phaedrussmith1949]

@JCO2002. So is written history.

[@JCO2002]

@@phaedrussmith1949 Primary sources like inscriptions, statues, coins, archaeological digs, C14 dating and DNA analysis are not myths - they're reality. Oral history, who knows.

[@aslanmane]

@@phaedrussmith1949 Incorrect. Oral history doesn't age as well as written.

[@bobafatt2155]

Topper is an archaeological site located along the Savannah River in Allendale County, South Carolina, United States. It is noted as a location of artifacts which some archaeologists believe to indicate human habitation of the New World earlier than the Clovis culture. The latter were previously believed to be the first people in North America.

[@khaaleliilighntingcoronado9009]

If the scientist just listened a little to the native tribes of the continent anf their origin stories then we coulf clearly understand that they have been on the north American continent a lot longer than the average American believes. Every time natives try to tell something important like HISOTRY, people shut them down.

[@EmeraldLavigne]

This is so beautiful.

[@guyh.4553]

What I would like is to be able to obtain a cast of one of these footprints to add to my rock & fossil collection

[@dsiepiela6449]

Make some for classrooms across the country, too!!

[@ingloriousbetch4302]

We've been telling people since they landed here we were here much longer than they claimed. That's why "archeologists" back in the day refused to involve indigenous tribes in any archeology until fairly recently. They refused to believe anything that didn't support they werecorrectt initially.

[@stevel379]

I've never doubted that humans were in the Americas much earlier than the Clovis culture. My question is, what tools did the pre-Clovis people use, and why haven't we found anything yet other than seemingly crude hammer stones and uni-facial flakes? Advancements in technology allows civilizations to grow and flourish. The industrial revolution and creating fuel from crude oil allowed the world we know today to grow and thrive. Clovis style points have been found in every corner of North America, but when the Younger Dryas occurred, it all came to an end after a very short period of time from being first introduced. Did somebody just arrive on our shores one day with this new technology for making these great hunting points, or was there several thousand years of trial and error that should have left some lithic evidence of before Clovis?

[@Footprints1111]

Footsteps To Footprints. This is the most amazing thing ever. 🦋🌈✨👣

[@jcee2259]

Yeah? Evidently cave gypsum crystals have not told you yet that they have had no water for ages.

[@honestlynate7922]

We will never fully understand the scope of human activity on this planet. We have been here way longer than we are being given credit for. I believe we have been great technologically numerous times and have failed catastrophically every single one and had to start over each time

[@s.a.3894]

There's no need to fully understand anything when you can just believe any bullshit.

[@michaeldeierhoi4096]

😂😅. To out it a little differently, there is no evidence as in zero for any ancient technically advanced civilization. These people leaving foot prints were still very primitive people living a hunter/gatherer lifestyle.

[@davidmoser3535]

BS

[@KaliMaaaaa]

People can "believe' in the Easter Bunny, but FACTS speak to reality and the material world. There have been well under 100 Empires in history, they had the most "advanced" "technology"; they all failed because they destroyed/used up all the NATURAL resources that enabled that technology. We are at the end of this empire (peak oil was reached 10 years ago) and thus have reached peak technology (everything is dependent on oil/diesel engine including so called "green" energy); and we have destroyed the planet. If the species survives our only hope rests in the models of pre-patriarchal cultures that did not destroy themselves with the unsustainable economic falsehoods of capitalism.

[@nobodyspecial4702]

Failed so hard that absolutely no trace of existence has been found? How hard do you have to fail for all ceramics, plastics, metals and stonework to completely disappear?

[@BluePhoenix476513]

Did she reffer to ancient humans as critters?

[@johnjennipass180]

I he and that too

[@chipwalter4490]

Yes because she full well knows they are dealing with extraterrestrials

[@user-dd2ys9dd8c]

The footprint at 22 seconds appears to have a midtarsal break. Was that a feature of prehistoric man? If not, could this still be attributed to early human or something else?

[@anthonybyrnes2561]

“Established thought”. You mean “established academia”.

[@michaelcapeless3268]

This is fantastic = I saw it when it aired on PBS... dated at between 21,000 and 23,000 years ago -- how did those people get there? Where did they come from? How long ago did they arrive in N. America? The mystery is so intriguing -- seems to blow away previous knowledge of who/what/when/where, etc...

[@michaelcapeless3268]

@@usausausausa According to Frank Waters' The Book of the Hopi... that is a claim found there.

[@jrviade85]

how did they get there? walking! didn’t you see the video? they left footprints behind! siiiuuuuuu

[@mrguy1141]

Well there are origin stories in our oral history. I'm Hopi myself.

[@allankang7374]

How do you know those were "human" prints? How do you know they're not young sasquatch prints?

[@mrguy1141]

@@allankang7374 welp you're wrong till you prove it's bigfoot

[@iamhudsdent2759]

The archaeological work of Virginia Steen McIntyre and Louis Leakey date humans in North America (Mexico and California) to over 250,000 years ago using 4 different dating methods. This news was at first received with great acclaim in the 1960s, but because such dates conflict with the Out of Africa theory these important discoveries were smeared and attacked.

[@dicknarcowitz]

Yes, thank you! It's infuriating what was done to Virginia Steen McIntyre's career simply because she put science over dogma.

[@kingjames4886]

what are the chances of all the people ever in a location the first ones left any mark?

[@bartolomeothesatyr]

This doesn't strike me as a particularly controversial finding; the Bering land bridge was last above sea level from roughly 30,000 years ago to roughly 11,000 years ago if I'm not misremembering. Humans being humans, I'm sure ancient indigenous peoples of what is now Siberia followed the coast just as soon as the waters receded during the last ice age to exploit the rich littoral resources, and 7,000 years is plenty of time for their descendants to have made it to New Mexico.

[@gyozakeynsianism]

It's controversial because all the best evidence up to this has suggested that the earliest humans in the Americas appeared about 13,000 years ago.

[@bartolomeothesatyr]

@@gyozakeynsianism True, but an absence of evidence is not necessarily evidence of absence.

[@gyozakeynsianism]

@@bartolomeothesatyr The absence of evidence is the absence of evidence.

[@bartolomeothesatyr]

@@gyozakeynsianism Exactly! Evidence is no longer absent. In fact, not only is evidence now present, it's also pretty solidly convincing. The newly-discovered evidence is unprecedentedly old, sure, but so was every iteration of "oldest" evidence we had previously discovered, and to my mind at least, the only thing really surprising about this discovery is that it survived intact for us to find 21 to 23 thousand years later thanks to the geology of the White Sands region. I can't see any good reason why prehistoric peoples *_wouldn't_* have crossed Beringia and migrated southward in waves as their population grew.

[@fordhouse8b]

@@gyozakeynsianism Yes, but now there is not an absence of evidence.Evidence is evidence.

[@dyolinlinlin]

Ditch Grass ingests dead carbon as part of its photosynthesis process. Thus, carbon dating can be skewed by 7400 years or more. These footprints are undoubtedly ancient, but likely no more than 15,000 years old. Several papers have been published in recent weeks questioning the validity of the carbon dating of these prints. Still, a fascinating and incredible find.

[@jasondashney]

You make a very important point. The scientific method involves questioning every single step along the way and we can't just take for granted the fact of the carbon dating is going to be perfect and accurate every time

[@nmarbletoe8210]

I searched google scholar for papers debating the dates, didn't find any, got a name for a study? People have to be questioning it just as a matter of due diligence.

[@dyolinlinlin]

@@nmarbletoe8210 yes, look up 'evidence of humans in north America during the last glacial maximum' by Matthew r. Bennett, David bustos and others and also 'deep-water delivery model of ruppia seeds to nearshore/terrestrial setting and its chronological implications for late pleistocene footprints, tularosa basin, New Mexico' by David m. Rachel, Jim I. Mead and others

[@stargazer5073]

That means evidence along the coast was destroyed by weather, sea, etc.

[@ianeichenlaub5084]

evidence everywhere but perfectly suited places is erased but sure, people settle along the coast. people that don't settle, still enjoy living near water, which usually flows to the coast. That leads to the question of, where were the coasts back then?

[@stargazer5073]

@@ianeichenlaub5084 well old coast lines should be covered by water now due to sea level rise.

[@breezywarhead8489]

@@stargazer5073 yeah it been happening since climate age back then. These dumb people saying climate is a big issue yet it’s already are in climate like during ancient times.

[@nmarbletoe8210]

@@stargazer5073 Yes! Except in some places such as Calvert Island in BC.

[@waynep343]

What kinds of seeds. Any dna left to extract. What was the soil composition that the foot prints were made in. What was the fill material in the foot print. Can they duplicate what conditions could cause foot prints to remain. Walking thru a wet surface that dried. And then was filled with dry layers of dust by the wind would be my guess.

[@mlight7402]

The seeds in each layer of sediment allowed them to date that layer.

[@ernoa1775]

Very important news for me. You know, this changes everything. I have always wondered about this day and night.

[@fauxque5057]

So did we really steal this land from the native Americans? They immigrated here from Asia. And this land had been occupied before they arrived. So technically they stole the land from someone else

[@franciscohernandez7913]

In Yucatán México bones have been found inside a cenote under water and the samples of r. Carbon results were 12,000 years old.

[@FacesintheStone]

Finally ancient America is getting some recognition. It’s so hard to get people to care about history, trust me I know. But it seems like more people are getting into it, as we should be. There’s a lot of value in looking in the past, we can learn from our ancestors. Look at the photo realistic picture on my avatar, it was found in North Carolina on a 8in long arrowhead shaped rock. I’ve got five or six of these photo realistic portraits now. State Archeologist won’t help, it’s up to private citizens and organizations to make the discoveries and share them. We do it for free, because it’s what’s right. I’ve only been at it for six months but others have been doing it for years.

[@bakenumber4]

"Those that forget history are doomed to repeat it."

[@ENTERTAININGVIDEOS1]

BMA Why will nybdy bother to see past when it's dark with human blood on hand!!!

[@nevyen149]

WTF? "Finally ancient America is getting some recognition" ??? There have been documentaries on ancient peoples of the New World for decades...and the work goes on. This isn't even the newest discovery on dating the earliest humans to arrive in the Americas. Chiquihuite Cave in Mexico was only discovered in 2012, and has pushed the arrival of humans back to at least 30,000 YBP...during a time when there was no ice-free corridor. It's been suggested for a while that the earliest arrivals came by boat...following along the edge of the ice sheet, not over the land when it melted. Kind of silly it wasn't thought of before, considering that peoples like the Inuit were still doing it when Europeans first arrived. As you pointed out yourself, you are new to this...and, with less offense intended than the language suggests...you don't know what you are talking about. Without having them in front of me, and access to a hand lens at a minimum, I can't say for sure...but I'm pretty confident the State archaeologist won't investigate because they are just rocks. The problem is pareidolia...the human brain is literally wired to see faces and familiar shapes. Clouds, leaves, any general background visual noise is turned into faces, and, without evidence of being worked by human hands...they are just rocks which *LOOK* like faces. And before you even ask...yes, *I* do know what I'm talking about. I have a degree in archaeology, and even worked for a state agency making sure indigenous sites weren't destroyed by new construction.

[@yukonjeffimagery]

Here in western Alaska I found what I believe is footprint popped out of the stone. I have not had it confirmed yet.I would like to show someone that might know for sure.

[@sbodolus]

Have you reached out to any anyone? Contacted USGS, sent pictures?

[@yukonjeffimagery]

@@sbodolus No I live in a remote village in Alaska. Not sure who to cantact?

[@secretdaisy6484]

How is it these footprints remained on the surface uncovered by sediment for so many thousands of years? I understand how they can be preserved under layers but I’ve watched archeologists excavate 6 to 12 feet from after the Civil War where so much had accumulated on top of what they were digging for. 👍

[@lesliefranklin1870]

The desert winds blow sand on things and later blows sands off of things. It's a continually changing landscape.

[@bonfiliomadera]

@@lesliefranklin1870 for the same reason of winds blowing after 21k years I would think there's nothing left of those prints

[@Brassblitz]

They were made, filled in and buried. They remained buried and protected under the surface for thousands of years. They were only recently uncovered by erosion. The full documentary talks about the race to document and study them before they erode away. It's worth a watch.

[@stevemoyer2273]

@@lesliefranklin1870 And this really isn't silicate sand. It is powdered gypsum.

[@randyhodder6015]

Some ancestors came across land bridge but to think there was no one here already is comically ignorant

[@holly-jothompson3717]

just saw this episode last night and idk if its been suggested already regarding what was used to make the drag marks my first thought was tusks used as the "poles" now i dont know how heavy tusks are but taking info from the episode mentioned earlier that mammoths were present there and seeing that trees arent really in abundance let alone a tree as wide as the width of the drag marks apear to be tusks used as sled rail (which would curve up to make hand holds ) but tusks seem

[@jeffmccloud905]

A very recent study throws doubt on the dating. The footprints were dated using seeds found underneath. But those seeds were from waterborne plants, which messes up the carbon dating by several thousand years (they were able to reproduce the incorrect dating). Search online, the article on the study was about a week ago tops.

[@ThePapawhisky]

Evidence. Theory. Progress. Science is our friend.

[@k1j2f30]

Only if the science is done correctly, and the results are published, brought forth and accepted by the scientific community! The scientific community must not be afraid of the truth, no matter what it shows us!

[@spacelemur7955]

PBS certainly dragged out the reveal far longer than necessary (>3 min). 😠

[@esbinlopez]

Imagine if he or she never thought it will be remembered in history

[@alandavenport2724]

As mentioned these are the earliest prints found ! Are these the first humans in the area ? I doubt it but we can only theorize !

[@jasondashney]

Good point. It should always be framed that this is the earliest evidence of, not that these were the first humans.

[@marksawyer3834]

Theorize is what the mainstream always does

[@nmarbletoe8210]

There is a site from 37,000 in New Mexico, the Rio Puerco mammoth site. It is not universally accepted but I read the paper, looks good to me.

[@doktortutankamazon31]

The Inuit migrated without a land bridge or ice free corridor and not by a coastal sea route. Why is the paradigm that earlier migrations could not have done the same? The time for an ice free corridor to become fertile land must be hundreds of years. Roald Admunsen proved that traveling on ice and snow using 10,000 year old tech is highly efficient.

[@wawaweewa9159]

Would be cool if someone studied how they walked based on footp ositioning

[@Geeksmithing]

Did that woman just call other humans "critters"?

[@silencemeviolateme6076]

The Bering land bridge means nothing to the settling of the Americas. They came across the ocean using trade winds. Indonesia is where they sailed from.

[@terrencemunro]

This smashes the “Clovis First” theory out the park!

[@nmarbletoe8210]

Yup! In fact it pushes it back to pre-LGM

[@shawns0762]

A 22,000 year old Mastodon skull was dredged of the coast of Maryland with 2 ancient spearheads. A 130,000 year old Mastodon was unearthed in California with ancient tools around it as well. I have also heard of evidence of humans in far South America about 40,000 years old, I don't recall exactly what it was however.

[@mcdlb181]

You think , the history that we know today should be known as misinformation

[@cloudbloom]

I love stuff like this, so cool

[@hamburgler227]

and yet suggested saving people the time of watching with your other comment🤣

[@fyrecraftedgaming]

Amazing

[@rosierose1917]

I would love to know who that person was that left those prints

[@BradleyWashburn1]

This is not new news, my mom is that old... She could have told you this.

[@bonfiliomadera]

So let me get this straight, there's layers and layers of sediment, below the foot prints, but none above that could have buried or cover the foot prints, as if sediment all of the sudden stopped coming down, just asking

[@jamiegagnon6390]

No, there were layers of sediment above that have been eroded away as the landscape changed. That is how most fossils are exposed. When you find some on the surface, then you dig down to that layer and deeper around the original site to see if there is more waiting to be revealed.

[@ianrobinson8974]

There is evidence that Indigenous peoples in Australia, who wandered here from the north and west may have also wandered accross the land bridge into the Americas. There is a remnant population in Sth America. They are believed to have been here for up to 200,000 yrs so they have had enough time to leave traces in America of their "trek" to the south!

[@telebubba5527]

Not Aboriginals, but Austronesians. Same type of people but used to live all over south eastern Asia: Indonesia, Brunei, Philippines, Malaysia, Thailand, Myanmar, Cambodja, Vietnam and Laos and most likely up into China. Sealevels were much lower then, so most of the islands of Indonesia were just part of one land mass, just like New Guinea used to be connected with Australia. There was a channel between the two land masses, which caused the animals to stay in place.

[@southerneruk]

Early European man could have easily reached N/America during the peak of the Ice Age, Even Neanderthal Man would have made it across chasing seals

[@NDN451]

every one wants it to be anything but Amerindian

[@frtdog]

In an article published by Live Science" it said that the land bridge between Eurasia and North America ran from about 30000 to 18000 years ago and at one time was over 600 miles wide. It went on to say that the bridge was exposed and flooded and exposed and flooded periodically over the past 3 million years so finding evidence that humans left footprints 20000 ish years is a great find but not totally unexpected.

[@nevyen149]

It's now believed the first migrants came by boat along the ice, rather than skirting it on land. Chiquihuite Cave puts humans in Mexico by at least 30,000 YBP.

[@nmarbletoe8210]

@@nevyen149 Rio Puerco site in New Mexico is 37,000. I think we are pushing it back towards the out-of-Africa event at ~ 70,000, maybe 60,000 for the Americas to give time to walk and boat from Egypt to Alaska.

[@nevyen149]

@@nmarbletoe8210 I find nothing on a rio puerco early human site. But the dates aren't impossible...30,000+ years to get from Egypt to New Mexico is not a problem...the aborigines made it to Australia quicker than that.

[@nmarbletoe8210]

@@nevyen149 Rowe et al 2022, Human occupation of the North American Colorado Plateau ~ 37,000 Years Ago, Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution. One day I realized I was always starting from North America and tracing back in time, but we can also start with "out of Africa" and trace forwards...

[@mikeelder6298]

I disagree with the statement, "The deeper it is, the older it is." I live along the White River in north central Arkansas. Each year as the seasons change from winter to spring we experience our rainy season and the White River floods. One year the White River deposited a twenty foot sand bank along the river, then six months later the sand bank was washed further down stream with no evidence of it ever been there. So your sediment layers theory of dating the age of something doesn't prove anything.

[@nmarbletoe8210]

Hold on, that still seems to fit the "deeper = older" although it shows how an unconformity can gorm!

[@rathesungod6651]

The age is too low, but at least they are trying to bring it up. I believe they will start finding dates over 350,000 years or more. It is very possible that future discoveries and advancements in scientific techniques could provide further insights into the timeline of human civilization. However, it is challenging to predict with certainty what specific discoveries may be made in the future.

[@luyzqint3760]

What about the foundings in Mexico?. They are over 33,000 y/o

[@ivanolsen7966]

keep looking ... the Australian Aboriginal has been here for 65,000 years

[@rickkwitkoski1976]

Yes.

[@conqueringlion420]

Greetings from California Chumash Native American Nation, first Americans

[@charaznable9209]

Wow it's a good thing nobody like Graham Hancock thought of this decades ago and had their lifes work flushed down the toilet and ridiculed by mainstream academia and archeologists.

[@akiranara9392]

Footprints？ "Who ?" should be discussed. The theory of mammoth hunters seems to be shaken and Kelp Highway in Pacific Ocean should be paid attention to.

[@jasjas8232]

Anyone else spread their toes apart watching this

[@Andy_Babb]

Is this from a longer episode of something?

[@r3conwoo]

You see this is the difference between science and religion. We've thought for a long time something else, now with new evidence we change what we believe to be true.

[@JohnComeOnMan]

Awesome!

[@Jordan-ws6jy]

How old is this footage? I saw something sevreal years ago that showed humans had been in america since 130k years ago.

[@606eimz]

"When these critters were walking around" 2:07. I thought they were talking about humans lol

[@jamiegagnon6390]

Are you too important to be just one of the critters, like the rest of us?? ;-)

[@CrochetIsLife54]

Someone mentioned that they also found the footprints of a ground sloth. I suspect that is why she used the word “critter.”

[@janaburritt6939]

Approx 4200 years ago as Noah's flood

[@cynnx7500]

damn, indigenous people of the americas have been here for a really long time. it's incredible.

[@CoDB02]

I love when Graham Hancock was talking about this and similar discoveries and that the Clovis ppl where not the first in America and the main stream old fart paleontologists were so resistant to the idea cause it didn’t fit their narrative.

[@jonni2317]

Talk about the mastodon that might or might not have been butchered please!

[@wilhelmmeyer89]

Some months ago I watched a YT video about old footprints in England. They were about 900,000 years old. So humans spread across Europe and Asia about 1 Million years ago. Assuming there was a landbridge between Asia and America at those times it is impossible that humans did not explore the landbridge and did not go to America about some hundred thousand years ago. The entire theory about the modern humans leaving Africa about 80,000 years is totally absurd. Humans spread wherever they found something to eat and drink. Why should they stay in Africa? Because they weren't modern enough? Please, please, please, rewrite anthropology according to new findings! BUT as long as people believe in Pfizer's covid vaccines and get jabs every few months there is no way established anthropology gets more reasonable.

[@CarlosRodriguez-hb3vq]

Speaking of being all over the map….

[@ENTERTAININGVIDEOS1]

BMA Yeah!! Native Humans lived in North America but wiped out just a few hundreds years ago!!!

[@chadthompson642]

Very disappointed there were no phallic drawings

[@stulynn2005]

I can't say it's wrong but those were some really weird looking prints and there were plenty of critters in the late Pliocene and throughout the Cenozoic era

[@herbertfawcett7213]

May? May? Is there any doubt now?

[@NotYoung3592]

wouldn't that place have multiple footprints being a byway? Not just one set? I call foul....

[@theseventhgeneration6910]

The science doesn't add up for me. If the layers of the sediment were saturated with water at the time those footprints were made, it's very likely that the impressions would be deep enough to go through several layers of sediment. I don't find this to be a scientifically accurate way of dating footprints.

[@rickkwitkoski1976]

Really? And YOUR "expertise" is??? Ah! Don't tell me... NOTHING! Your personal incredulity does NOT negate ANYTHING! Especially when you have NO knowledge or understanding of anything. Please take you ignorance back into the little hole of nothing from which you came.

[@fischkopf]

Another bolt to support Archaeologist Richard Stockton MacNeish who was on to something, many years ago with Pendejo Cave. Why should it surprise anyone that humans were in North America at different times, different travel waves.

[@paulskopic5844]

They didn't cover their tracks.

[@bngr_bngr]

Most of these people eventually populated South America.

[@Noneyabuiness]

Footprints were put in soft mud during the flood.

[@schuy2147]

Graham Hancock has been telling us this for years.

[@aslanmane]

If Graham Hancock says the world is round it doesn't validate anything else he says.

[@maketaco6683]

how come sediment did not cover the prints? How did the prints survive on the surface for 20,000 years?

[@jamiegagnon6390]

No, there were layers of sediment above that have been eroded away as the landscape changed. That is how most fossils are exposed. When you find some on the surface, then you dig down to that layer and deeper around the original site to see if there is more waiting to be revealed.

[@OptimiSkeptic]

White Sands has seen some stuff go down.

[@robinwitting2023]

The question is, finding evidence from prehistory is as rare as hen's teeth; they didn't just step off a boat and walk over there to leave these footprints; how long had humans actually been in the Americas before such a fluke as this happened to happen? Robin Witting England

[@manchesterexplorer8519]

Also North America is the only habitable continent that doesn't have much as far as ancient stone ruins , something catastrophic happened here that wiped everything off the map as this makes no sense . There's no reason as to why North America didn't have previous civilizations when the rest of the world is littered with ancient unexplained stone ruins . South America for example has a plethora of old civilizations with populations likely in the millions , so all of these millions of people in South America never ventured North ? The bering sea land bridge theory is false in my opinion as humans were in North America long before this theory . So what were being told to believe is that all these humans decided to not settle in North America which was rich in resources after crossing the land bridge , so they all decided to venture to South America for thousands of miles not knowing where they were going to build a civilization ? This Makes absolutely no sense to me . Something Catastrophic happened in North America .

[@Ezilahtem]

The pin and blue just like in Jurassic Park

[@donquijote7463]

NEIL ARMSTRONG: HOLD MY BEER.