22,000-year-old tracks — possibly from ‘oldest known’ vehicle — found in national park
We use the term ‘travois’ broadly to include any form of vehicle fashioned from a single wooden pole with a load, as well as ...
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Archaeology breakthrough ends decades of mystery as huge insight into prehistoric life uncovered
Archaeologists have discovered the earliest known evidence of prehistoric handcarts at White Sands National Park in New ...
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20,000-year-old evidence of ancient 'vehicles' discovered in New Mexico
Ancient footprints and drag marks at White Sands National Park in New Mexico suggest the earliest known Americans dragged wooden travois-like vehicles.
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World’s Oldest Known Handcarts Found in New Mexico, New Study Claims
A new study claims to have found the oldest handcarts ever in White Sands, New Mexico thanks to drag mark fossils.
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Early V-2 Photos of Earth
Video courtesy of White Sands Missile Range V-2 rockets launched from White Sands, New Mexico in the 1940s and returned the first photos of Earth from space. The rockets were launched on a ...
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Archaeological site found at Holloman Air Force Base
EL PASO, Texas (KTSM) — Holloman Air Force Base in Alamogordo, New Mexico ... White Sands National Park and Holloman, inadvertently protects numerous documented and undocumented archaeological ...
Earliest form of human transport upends record books
Fossilised drag marks at a New Mexico national park suggest makeshift sledges were used by early settlers to move heavy loads ...
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22,000-year-old tracks — possibly from ‘oldest known’ vehicle — found in national park
so are not usually preserved in the archaeological record.” Now, researchers believe fossilized tracks discovered in White Sands National Park, New Mexico, belong to one of these cart-like ...