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The 90-Year-Old Lie About New Mexico's White Sands Footprints

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Ancient human footprints preserved at White Sands National Park that have transformed our understanding of when humans arrived in the Americas.

For decades, scientists debated the age and significance of these mysterious footprints. But new research, dating methods, and archaeological evidence have challenged long-held assumptions about the earliest people in North America.

How old are the White Sands footprints? Who made them? What was New Mexico like during the Ice Age? And why did these ancient tracks become the center of such intense scientific debate?

We'll explore the evidence behind the White Sands footprints, the controversy surrounding their dating, the ancient landscape of New Mexico, and what these remarkable tracks reveal about early humans in North America.

🔎 In this video:
• White Sands footprints explained
• The history of White Sands National Park
• Ancient human footprints in New Mexico
• Ice Age humans in North America
• The debate over the footprints' age
• Archaeological and scientific evidence
• How ancient footprints are dated
• What the discovery means for human migration into the Americas

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20 Comments

@dat2ra 13 hours ago

I get SO sick of the internet calling every scientific disagreement a "lie". Lies are intentional deceit: the perpetrator knows what they are saying is incorrect. In the case you are examining, there is no lie, only differences in how the data are interpreted. Calling it a "lie" panders to the conspiracy mob and fosters mistrust in research. Just stop!

@AwakenNow5D 1 day ago

When any branch of science becomes a quasi-religious orthodoxy, where new findings are automatically treated as heretical challenges to the faith, stagnation is the result.

@Slickrock72 1 day ago

A confirmed 18,000 year old Human habitation site was found near Riley, Oregon. Artifacts under several inches of soil that also had a C-14-dated Camel tooth, overlayed by a 15,000-year-old volcanic ash layer from Mt St Helens. They are still excavating this site.

@RPSchonherr 1 day ago

13:50 I think they got it backwards. The lone prints going 1 way and heavy prints with child sometimes there. The lone trascks are mom or dad going out looking for the child, found him playing by the lake and then picked him up and carried him home.

@rebeccaarcher5139 20 hours ago

We must protect our belief system at all costs. Sadly, too many facts debunk the myths that so many “scientists” believe. It’s hard to climb down from the high horse they were securely mounted upon.

@lilashelton535 1 day ago

I love it when actual facts are presented. One of these days we’ll be sure of the history of our heritage.

@dstrtdreflekshun 17 hours ago

What’s crazy about the “sand” is that it’s not nearly as white as you would think. When it snows on the sand there is a very distinct difference between the two layers.

@petrairene 1 day ago

Channel deserves more views!!!

@RichardThompson-o5o 1 day ago

Will someone PLEASE print a map showing the 300’ and 400’ contour lines ; below current sea level. It’s easy to talk about the kelp highway hypothesis but hard to visualize without intimate knowledge of navigation charts, like sailors and fishermen.

@daveritter6249 14 hours ago

Fantastic story of science in action, all the successes and foibles. I'm going to show it to my 4th grade classes with a worksheet to help them pull out the ideas. But just like computers and high tech, this is part of their world.

@edwardlulofs444 10 hours ago

What about the Calico Early Man site a few miles east of Mojave, CA? An anthropologist that I know has shown to my satisfaction that they found tools much older than Clovis. There were lots of spots along the coast free of ice. And it appears that humans were in North America before the last Ice Age began.

@MammaDuckk 1 day ago

I must have a lot of old carbon in me. People are always saying I look a lot older than I actually am. Now if you're in high school, that's exactly the sort of thing you want to hear, but if you were age-forced into retirement and you're trying to live on Social security distributions and whatever you managed to put away into your IRA, then someone telling you that you look older than your age doesn't come across quite the same. My recommendation? Stay away from old water as far you can! Drink lots of new water! Hug your mother, your husband, and your kids because you never know when the last time you'll be able to do it again might be.

@zachariahbarber5794 4 hours ago

Texas is covered in sites far older than clovis

@frankhernandez6883 1 day ago

GREAT ⭐⭐⭐⭐

@falconquest2068 4 hours ago

The lesson here is to not hold onto your dogma. Keep an open mind and let the evidence lead you to a conclusion.

@dstrtdreflekshun 17 hours ago

13:30 I love how they never think it’s possible that the early human was actually going to get the child from somewhere and was actually returning with a load.

Or the other and much more likely possibility, two different humans at two separate times. Maybe a month. Maybe a day. Maybe 100 years apart. But it’s never an option to them.