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

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., Fenerty, B., Connelly, C., Martinez, P. J., Santucci, V. L. and Odess, D., 2021. Evidence of humans in North America during the Last Glacial Maximum. Science, 373 (6562), 1528 - 1531.

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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.

Item Type:Article
ISSN:0036-8075
Additional Information:This is the author’s version of the work. It is posted here by permission of the AAAS for personal use, not for redistribution. The definitive version was published in Science on 24 September 2021 373 (6562) 1528-1531, DOI: 10.1126/science.abg7586
Data available from BORDaR:https://doi.org/10.18746/bmth.data.00000186
Uncontrolled Keywords:Climate Change; Foot; Fossils; Geologic Sediments; History, Ancient; Human Migration; Humans; Ice Cover; New Mexico; North America
Group:Faculty of Science & Technology
ID Code:36202
Deposited By: Symplectic RT2
Deposited On:04 Nov 2021 11:02
Last Modified:26 Apr 2022 11:21

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