[Rockhounds] Fossils Footprints of White Sands National Park Redated

Paul etchplain at att.net
Thu Oct 5 12:15:54 PDT 2023


Study confirms age of oldest fossil human footprints in North America
Two new lines of evidence support the 21,000 to 23,000-year age
footprints first described and dated in 2021,
USGS, Earth Science Matters Newsletter, September 5, 2023
https://www.usgs.gov/programs/climate-research-and-development-program/news/discovery-ancient-human-footprints-white
https://www.usgs.gov/media/images/geologic-context-and-track-maker-demographics-white-sands-study-site

Bennett, M.R., Bustos, D., Pigati, J.S., Springer, K.B., Urban, T.M.,
Holliday, V.T., Reynolds, S.C., Budka, M., Honke, J.S., Hudson, A.M.
and Fenerty, B., 2021. Evidence of humans in North America
during the last glacial maximum./Science/,/373/(6562), pp.1528-1531.
https://www.science.org/doi/epdf/10.1126/science.abg7586
Preprint PDF - 
https://eprints.bournemouth.ac.uk/36202/7/science_manuscript_WHSA_rev3_17Aug21.pdf

Yours,

Paul H.



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