Ancient footprints could be oldest traces of humans in the Americas - New Discovery

Children left tracks in New Mexico around 21000 years ago — thousands of years before most scientists thought humans settled in North America . At the height of the last Ice Age, the region was wetter and grassier. Mammoths, giant sloths and other animals walked the muddy shores of shallow lakes alongside with humans . researchers suggest that human footprints from an ancient lakeshore in the park date to between 21,000 and 23,000 years old. If the dating is accurate — which specialists say is likely — the prints represent the earliest unequivocal evidence of human occupation anywhere in the Americas.

[kenmello]

Would you be interested in talking to me about a human fossil footprint That I found in western New York?

[kylebonang]

@2:48 Does anyone else see a six-toed flat-footed teen footprint on the top of the screen (Left Foot) next to the adult foot on bottom (presumably with pinky extended)?

[akiranara]

Very informative, thank you. By the way, as for the First Americans, Japanese Ainu aren't indigenous or aborigine at all. They came in 12th century and no relation with First Americans theme completely. They are quite different from Australian Aborigine and American native Indians' situation. Related people for the First Americans are Proto-Japanese Hokkaido（PJH, Hokkaido Sojin）had lived there, northern part of Japanese archipelago, since 35-30, 000 years ago though their bones haven' t been found yet. Similar peoples' bones were found in Okinawa, as samples of 36, 000~27, 000 years ago. On the other hand, their ancestors are famous for crossing sea more than 20km to collect obsidians at Onbase island in Tokyo islands since 38, 000 years ago. Any way, it's not Ainu, but Proto-Japanese Hokkaido（PJH）or Hokkaido Sojin as the ancestral candidate people of the First Americans. These're well known matters about Ainu and ancestors, but really very strange of no mentioning from university scholars' side. Footprints 23, 000 years ago found last year in New Mexico has completely changed paradigm of human migration hypothesis. Important thing is that the migration to South America wasn't "Express", but slow local. This indicates that humans seem to have started Hokkaido and/or east Siberia in 30, 000 years ago and had approached to Beringia little by little in slow local, then reached there in around 25, 000 years ago. Continued coastal, kelp highway route, migration down to New Mexico and reached by 23, 000 years ago. 　sunda-wind.net