Archaeologists find ice age footprints of earliest North Americans
BY AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE - AFP
LOS ANGELES AUG 14, 2022 - 2:35 PM GMT+3
Dozens of fossilized prints laid down during the ice age have been discovered in dried-up riverbeds in a desert in the western state of Utah in the United States, and are shedding new light on North America's earliest human inhabitants, revealing more details about the continent's original occupants more than 12,000 years ago – just as the frozen planet was starting to thaw.
The fossils could have remained unnoticed if not for a chance glance out of a moving car as researcheMrs Daron Duke and Thomas Urban drove through Hill Air Force Base chatting about footprints.
"We were talking about, 'What would they look like?'" Duke told Agence France-Presse (AFP). "And he said, 'Kind of like that out the window.'"
What the men had found turned out to be 88 distinct prints left by a mixture of adults and children.
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