Mud never lies,” added University of Arizona archaeologist Vance Holliday, whose new work has turned a century of hypothesis ...

Using new radiocarbon dating on ancient footprints found preserved in the gypsum-rich ground in White Sands, researchers have ...

These lines in the mud are now pushing scientists to rethink the origin story of the Americas. In 2021, a first analysis of these footprints found that they were between 21,000 and 23,000 years old.

Footprints found in the ancient lakebeds of White Sands may prove that humans lived in North America 23,000 years ago — much earlier than previously believed. A new study using radiocarbon-dated mud ...

What if humans left their first mark on the Americas earlier than we think? An anthropologist said footprints uncovered here ...