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Fossilized human footprints in New Mexico appear to be up to 23,000 years old, left behind by teenagers and young children.
Evidence of humans in North America during the Last Glacial Maximum
Perhaps one reason why no signs of people were found in North America past 10 to 12 thousand years ago, is that the people lived with the land and only used natural items which would decompose along with everything else and leave no trace. Lots of Indian tribes left few permanent marks on the land because of how they interacted with the Natural World. The natural existence of the Natural World was part of their existence.
Places were people were fighting the land, rebuilding the land, seemed to put more of a detectable dent in the world which could be seen at later times. The footsteps that showed people were in America 21,000 years ago were probably only inches thick. A very thin layer with very little in it that didn't naturally occur there.
Evidence of humans in North America during the Last Glacial Maximum
Perhaps one reason why no signs of people were found in North America past 10 to 12 thousand years ago, is that the people lived with the land and only used natural items which would decompose along with everything else and leave no trace. Lots of Indian tribes left few permanent marks on the land because of how they interacted with the Natural World. The natural existence of the Natural World was part of their existence.
Places were people were fighting the land, rebuilding the land, seemed to put more of a detectable dent in the world which could be seen at later times. The footsteps that showed people were in America 21,000 years ago were probably only inches thick. A very thin layer with very little in it that didn't naturally occur there.