File:Ice Age Human Footprints (a45c5031-d519-43f0-8d64-7b81d653c3ff).JPG

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English: Ice Age Human Footprints
Photographer
English: NPS
Title
English: Ice Age Human Footprints
Description
English:

Seven human footprints preserved in Ice Age gypsum cement.

Ice Age footprints from adolescemt female estimated to 23,000-21,000 years ago. During this time warming and drying events caused Lake Otero to significantly drop in water level, allowing for the footprints to be made in the drying gypsum mud.

  • Keywords: Ice Age; Human; Footprint; Fossil; Gypsum
Depicted place
English: White Sands National Park, New Mexico
Date Taken on 30 January 2020
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Source
English: NPGallery
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Public domain This image or media file contains material based on a work of a National Park Service employee, created as part of that person's official duties. As a work of the U.S. federal government, such work is in the public domain in the United States. See the NPS website and NPS copyright policy for more information.
NPS Unit Code
InfoField
WHSA
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English: Fossilized Trackways

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