Evidence of humans in North America during the Last Glacial Maximum

Authors: Bennett, M.R., Reynolds, S.C., Budka, M. et al.

Journal: Science

Volume: 373

Issue: 6562

Pages: 1528-1531

eISSN: 1095-9203

ISSN: 0036-8075

DOI: 10.1126/science.abg7586

Abstract:

Archaeologists and researchers in allied fields have long sought to understand human colonization of North America. Questions remain about when and how people migrated, where they originated, and how their arrival affected the established fauna and landscape. Here, we present evidence from excavated surfaces in White Sands National Park (New Mexico, United States), where multiple in situ human footprints are stratigraphically constrained and bracketed by seed layers that yield calibrated radiocarbon ages between ~23 and 21 thousand years ago. These findings confirm the presence of humans in North America during the Last Glacial Maximum, adding evidence to the antiquity of human colonization of the Americas and providing a temporal range extension for the coexistence of early inhabitants and Pleistocene megafauna.

https://eprints.bournemouth.ac.uk/36202/

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Evidence of humans in North America during the Last Glacial Maximum.

Authors: Bennett, M.R., Reynolds, S.C., Budka, M. et al.

Journal: Science

Volume: 373

Issue: 6562

Pages: 1528-1531

eISSN: 1095-9203

DOI: 10.1126/science.abg7586

Abstract:

Archaeologists and researchers in allied fields have long sought to understand human colonization of North America. Questions remain about when and how people migrated, where they originated, and how their arrival affected the established fauna and landscape. Here, we present evidence from excavated surfaces in White Sands National Park (New Mexico, United States), where multiple in situ human footprints are stratigraphically constrained and bracketed by seed layers that yield calibrated radiocarbon ages between ~23 and 21 thousand years ago. These findings confirm the presence of humans in North America during the Last Glacial Maximum, adding evidence to the antiquity of human colonization of the Americas and providing a temporal range extension for the coexistence of early inhabitants and Pleistocene megafauna.

https://eprints.bournemouth.ac.uk/36202/

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Evidence of humans in North America during the Last Glacial Maximum

Authors: Bennett, M.R., Reynolds, S.C., Budka, M. et al.

Journal: SCIENCE

Volume: 373

Issue: 6562

Pages: 1528-+

eISSN: 1095-9203

ISSN: 0036-8075

DOI: 10.1126/science.abg7586

https://eprints.bournemouth.ac.uk/36202/

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Evidence of humans in North America during the Last Glacial Maximum

Authors: Bennett, M.R., Reynolds, S.C., Budka, M. et al.

Journal: Science

Volume: 373

Issue: 6562

Pages: 1528-1531

eISSN: 1095-9203

ISSN: 0036-8075

DOI: 10.1126/science.abg7586

Abstract:

Archaeologists and researchers in allied fields have long sought to understand human colonization of North America. Questions remain about when and how people migrated, where they originated, and how their arrival affected the established fauna and landscape. Here, we present evidence from excavated surfaces in White Sands National Park (New Mexico, United States), where multiple in situ human footprints are stratigraphically constrained and bracketed by seed layers that yield calibrated radiocarbon ages between ~23 and 21 thousand years ago. These findings confirm the presence of humans in North America during the Last Glacial Maximum, adding evidence to the antiquity of human colonization of the Americas and providing a temporal range extension for the coexistence of early inhabitants and Pleistocene megafauna.

https://eprints.bournemouth.ac.uk/36202/

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Evidence of humans in North America during the Last Glacial Maximum.

Authors: Bennett, M.R., Reynolds, S.C., Budka, M. et al.

Journal: Science (New York, N.Y.)

Volume: 373

Issue: 6562

Pages: 1528-1531

eISSN: 1095-9203

ISSN: 0036-8075

DOI: 10.1126/science.abg7586

Abstract:

Archaeologists and researchers in allied fields have long sought to understand human colonization of North America. Questions remain about when and how people migrated, where they originated, and how their arrival affected the established fauna and landscape. Here, we present evidence from excavated surfaces in White Sands National Park (New Mexico, United States), where multiple in situ human footprints are stratigraphically constrained and bracketed by seed layers that yield calibrated radiocarbon ages between ~23 and 21 thousand years ago. These findings confirm the presence of humans in North America during the Last Glacial Maximum, adding evidence to the antiquity of human colonization of the Americas and providing a temporal range extension for the coexistence of early inhabitants and Pleistocene megafauna.

https://eprints.bournemouth.ac.uk/36202/

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Evidence of humans in North America during the Last Glacial Maximum.

Authors: Bennett, M.R., Reynolds, S.C., Budka, M. et al.

Journal: Science

Volume: 373

Issue: 6562

Pages: 1528-1531

ISSN: 0036-8075

Abstract:

Archaeologists and researchers in allied fields have long sought to understand human colonization of North America. Questions remain about when and how people migrated, where they originated, and how their arrival affected the established fauna and landscape. Here, we present evidence from excavated surfaces in White Sands National Park (New Mexico, United States), where multiple in situ human footprints are stratigraphically constrained and bracketed by seed layers that yield calibrated radiocarbon ages between ~23 and 21 thousand years ago. These findings confirm the presence of humans in North America during the Last Glacial Maximum, adding evidence to the antiquity of human colonization of the Americas and providing a temporal range extension for the coexistence of early inhabitants and Pleistocene megafauna.

https://eprints.bournemouth.ac.uk/36202/

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