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Artist's rendition of the landscape at White Sands during the last Ice Age, including lakes, mountains, and animals.
Wednesday

Footprints in the (white) sand: Humans experienced abrupt environmental shifts during the last ice age

Increased precision of radiocarbon dating and archival evidence reaffirms 23,000 years as the age of the famous footprints discovered in White Sands National Park and demonstrates humans withstood abrupt swings in the environment within individual lifetimes.