The Economic Times

23,000-year-old footprints found in New Mexico reveal when first humans came to America: Early settlers arrived during Ice age; evidence rewrites America's origin story

Scientific analysis of 23,000-year-old footprints at White Sands National Park in New Mexico has strengthened the case for an unexpectedly early human presence in the Americas. Using fossilised pollen and quartz grain dating alongside earlier radiocarbon methods, researchers say multiple independent lines of evidence now point to the same ancient timeline.