An old lake bed reveals evidence of America’s first inhabitants

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The tracks are the oldest undisputed evidence of human beings in North America

, from a dried-up lake bed in New Mexico, are one of several sets which radiocarbon evidence suggests were made between 21,000 and 23,000 years ago. They are described in this week’sby Matthew Bennett of Bournemouth University, in Britain, and his colleagues, and are the oldest undisputed evidence of human beings in North America.

Few doubt that the first Americans crossed from Asia, probably over the Bering Strait when low sea levels during the last Ice Age meant it was dry land. Exactly when, though, is unclear. The oldest human fossils in North America date from 13,000 years ago. But evidence from stone tools suggests the presence of people there as far back as 30,000 years in the past. The stone-tool evidence is, however, controversial.

 

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appears to be Ethiopian footprints or maybe some survivors of Noah's flood.

This was after Columbus discovered America right?

Oh dear, while we Jews cling to the religious myth of a 6000 year old history of humankind beginning with the Adam-Eve story.

The Creation Museum folks will be disputing aplenty!

They were practicing the Booty Pop

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