Oldest Human Footprints In North America Discovered, Tracks Preserved For 10,550 Years

Two footprints -- one left and one right -- stamped in the Mexican desert over 10,000 years ago are the oldest known human footprints in North America. According to new analysis, the tracks, discovered 190 miles south of the Texas border, predate any previous discovery by some 5,000 years. The footprints tell the story of a hunter-gatherer who marched through a marshy basin in the Chihuahuan Desert long before the Mesoamerican civilizations like the Mayans dominated the Mexican landscape.