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Confirmed: New Mexico Footprints Rewrite Timeline of Humans in America


Ancient seas left an expanse of rolling gypsum dunes known as White Sands in New Mexico, and within this surreal landscape lies evidence that humans have roamed the Americas for at least 20,000 years.

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