The models can argue about how those people got there.

They cannot argue that those people were not there.

A Second Opening: The Question The Footprints Cannot Answer

Around the time that the scientific community was processing the implications of the White Sands findings, a different kind of question was gaining attention — one that the footprints, however extraordinary, are not equipped to answer.

Who were these people?

Not in the genetic or tribal sense alone — though that is part of the question — but in the fuller sense.