Tracking the First Americans across the White Sands - Early North American Human Footprints

[@headlessspaceman5681]

Thanks for sharing these incredible discoveries!

[@Hyberlol]

I love this but I just cant believe that those footprints left out in the open for 20000 years could possibly survive the wind erosion for that length of time.

[@studio3686]

Wonderful Video... thank you SO much for sharing. Is there anywhere on public land where I could go and see any of the human, or animal tracks in this area?

[@oldpuebloarchaeologycenter6470]

To Studio36: You probably would need to contact the staff at White Sands National Park to ask whether any of the preserved footprints are in areas open to public visitation: 575-679-2599, www.nps.gov/common/utilities/sendmail/sendemail.cfm?o=5C8DC8BAA2DAA1A891A903BDFC03AAB94F9248AF52A69FD15810B8&r=/whsa/contacts.htm

[@jholt03]

The two geographical locations most conducive to supporting early hunter-gatherer populations were the coastal regions of oceans and seas, and along major riverways. The majority of the cultures in existence today that depend, either partially or primarily on hunting and gathering for their subsistence still obtain much of their caloric intake from the rich biological resources found along the coasts and major rivers. It's only logical to presume that these same locations have been the most heavily populated areas going back hundreds of thousands of years, even before the emergence of modern humans. Being that sea level has risen roughly 400 feet since the last glacial maximum, and most if not all major river systems would have experienced repeated episodes of major or even catastrophic flooding during the melting of the ice sheets and mountain glaciers, I think it's safe to say the vast majority of the archeological evidence for early human habitation lies under hundreds of feet of water today, or was destroyed altogether by floods that were degrees of magnitude greater than any known during historic times. This leaves modern archeologists with precious few clues remaining with which they can try to piece together a view of human history before the greatest part of all that melting subsided six to eight thousand years ago. A good analogy might be trying to describe what's pictured in a 10,000 piece puzzle when you only have a few dozen scattered puzzle pieces to go by. With so little to go on it's imprudent to rule out almost any possibility. If archeologists spent more time and energy searching for earlier evidence of people in the Americas and less time and energy trying to defend their established dogmas they might be better able to answer more of the big questions.

[@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.

[@bensabelhaus7288]

"There are dog prints" *heart races, checks years* "Probably from a dire wolf" *deflation*