These weird footprints 👣 rewrite the history of North America

a toddler, mammoth, saber tooth tiger, and sloth? wait i've seen this movie im pretty sure

A mammoth, saber tooth tiger, and sloth… sounds familiar… 🦣🐅🦥

Ice age was a documentary all along

Im imagining the mom was doing the teaching them to walk thing by basically holding there bodies up and letting there feet walk - Very cute imagery

That toddler was actually the worlds greatest long jumper ever known

The fact that a likely precious moment between a parent and their child has been preserved for thousands of years and has rewritten our understanding of human migration is crazy to me

The relationship between adult human and human baby is one of the most sacred primordial experiences we humans have honestly... I feel connected to every human who ever was because we were all screaming babies someone else cared for at one point. This is a cute & cool discovery.

Love the White Sands NP. An amazing and beautiful place. Hiked there for miles. And the skies, day and night are amazing.

This was discovered a while ago. And very interesting yes! A mother and a child walked a very far distance to another village most likely. They know the mother carried the child at some points because the childs footprints disappeared and the mother's footprints were deeper in the mud at those times (meaning she was carrying more weight). Then she dropped the child off and came back alone - they know this because there's no footprints accompanying her on the way back and her footprints weren't heavier again on the way back - meaning that she did not just carry the child the entire way back. So she walked a very long distance to drop off her child and then walked all the way back alone. It's truly so interesting that they could figure all of that out!!!

That kid was picked up... Amazing!

So soothing to me to hear and see little bits of history like this This wasn’t something big It didn’t change the world It’s just footprints This mother likely didn’t do anything huge in her lifetime Nothing to be written about in history books Didn’t lead armies Didn’t invent technologies Didn’t birth a king Didn’t weave historical arts She just took a very long walk With her toddler And her arms probably got tired So she put them down for a bit And they walked together But the kid got tired, as kids do And cried to be picked up So she picked them up again And kept walking There’s no way this mother thought that moment of her life would be anything but a moment And yet here we are Thousands of years later Seeing the walk she took And imagining her and her baby Her little walk With her kid Has changed what we thought of history at the time And I think that’s the butterfly effect in perfect balance All she did was take a walk And so many years later It’s proof that she and her child existed And are not forgotten

Coastal migration theory, right? We studied that in university last year as an alternative to the Clovis First theory, which no longer seems viable with the new evidence! It’s awesome stuff to learn about!

I feel the toddler struggles

"Rewrite the science" bruh rewriting science IS SCIENCE. That's literally what science is all about.

I saw this in another video. In the other video it also mentioned that the woman's footprints show her making a journey to somewhere and then returning back, and that the child's footprints are only shown on the first half of the journey. So wherever this woman had went, she had left the child there before returning.

Didn't they also find the mother's return footprints with evidence that she came back without the toddler? The gait of the footprints indicated that she was not carrying a child on the way back

I just now got a video about how all humans are just humans, about how the pot thats in a museum was probably buried in the ground because someone burned their dinner and didnt want to clean it, a roman writing carved in a stone saying ,,I was here" was left by a roman solider in a different contury, and other instances of humans just being humans and still doing the same things

Another one of my favorites is a cave where scientists found dozens of painted on hand prints on the wall. I believe it was in France. One of the prints is much smaller and believed to be a child but it was at a height of an average adult at the time. This suggests that a grown-up picked the kid up to paint their hand on the wall

I'm am archaeologist, so this was exciting news when it hit but not too unexpected. We have a few sites that push back the 15 000 BP dates, Topper Site in SC Kanorado in KS, Monte Verde in Argentina. As no Clovis tools have been found outside of the Americas that would go to show those folks were here established and didn't travel from abroad. Even 25 years ago going through undergrad we were taught that biological anthropologists, and linguistic anthropologists have data suggesting 25-30,000 BP. Though us young archaeologists tended to believe that data, from an archaeological standpoint we didn't have definitive proof. So those footprints, if that data remains and isn't disproven is the first real site to definitely say yes we can now officially agree with our sibling sciences. Now we just need more sites to strengthen that claim!

There are other archaeological discoveries that have indicated similar or earlier timelines which are also interesting: Bluefish caves, Yukon, 24,000 years. Chiquihuite Cave, Mexico, 30,000 years (debated). Cerutti Mastodon Site, California, 130,000 years (very controversial).