Interesting twist on white sands foot prints

[Older The Better]

The Discovery of the Oldest Human Footprints in North America Thrilled Researchers. It Turns Out They May Not Be So Old | Artnet News

Researchers appear to have debunked last year's bombshell claim that footprints found in New Mexico were North America's oldest.

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Thought I’d share, up to this I thought they were rock solid evidence but this would certainly change things


And non related arrowheads just because

 

[OntarioArch]

Nice article, thanks!
Many scientific truths reveals themselves slowly.

 

[pepperj]

Thanks for posting that interesting article up.
Just proves that the system of carbon dating needs some work yet.

 

[unclemac]

Clovis may not have been first but Clovis marks, without a doubt, an actual migration of a "mass" of people with a starting point (whenever it was exactly)

 

[Older The Better]

I was under the assumption that the errors in carbon dating were a result of sampling the wrong material, like contaminated samples and such, I didn’t realize that some living things take in old carbon to begin with.