The 23,000-Year-Old Footprints Found In New Mexico – And The Evidence That Rewrote America’s Human Timeline
They had languages and stories and relationships and knowledge of the landscape they lived in that dwarfs anything the sediment record can preserve.
They were not primitives or shadowy ancestors.
They were people.
The footprints in the mud of Lake Otero are the most direct evidence we have of that humanity.
The heel, the arch, the toes, pressed into sediment twenty-three thousand years ago, surviving against every probability, finally seen.
The Story That Isn’t Finished
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