Human footprints from 12,000 years ago, found in the United States

Some archaeologists have found traces of a fireplace dating back to 12,300 years ago. These are birds in ashes, stone tools, coals and bones. In short, signs of human presence. The most significant find is the tiny human footprints imprinted on the Earth. The analysis resulted in 88 footprints of adults and children between 5 and 12 years old.

Individuals were used to walking in shallow water with the presence of sand mixed with mud as the footprints are imprinted. It seems to have been an oasis that provided the fertile ground for the first American settlers. Now it is a dusty and arid plain.

Scholars are curious about how and when these people first came to America. The first hypotheses are based on the Clovis, the first inhabitants of America, who settled on the continent 15-13 thousand years ago. Other discoveries have moved the arrival of the first inhabitants to 25-37 thousand years ago. Further current studies say these early populations inhabited the area more than 12,000 years ago.

So no distortion of what is known about the first inhabitants of America. However, exceptional revelations remain in terms of age and historical position. The only Pleistocene human footprints found in the Americas at White Sands National Park, in New Mexico, date back to 21-23 thousand years ago.