Footprints emigrated to North America from 13,200 years ago

Scientists have recently discovered the oldest known footprints in North America so far on a small island off the coast of Western Canada.

Discover the oldest immigrant footprint to North America

The team led by two archaeologists Duncan McLaren and Daryl Fedje of Victoria University found the first footprint in 2014 in a soft clay layer on the beach of Calvert Island , located 500km west of Vancouver city North.

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A few months later, with the assistance of the Hakai Institute, the team returned to the area and continued to discover more footprints.

According to scientists, these footprints are of two adults and one child, possibly a family, gathered around a fire.

Using a carbon-based antiquated dating method with graphite around one of the 12 fossil footprints results in a date of 13,200 years . Other specimens are still being analyzed further.

If verified, these will be the oldest footprints ever found in North America.

This discovery has only been published in an expert review journal.

This finding supports the hypothesis that the first inhabitants of the continent migrated from Alaska by boat along the southern beach instead of by road.

Calvert Island is the only place accessible by boat; The ability of those who leave these footprints is seafarers.

Meanwhile, geographic evidence reinforces the hypothesis that the first humans traveled by boat along the Pacific coast of the Americas are not entirely solid.

According to scientists, if there exists, most of the inhabitants living along the coast will be submerged by sea level rise due to the melting phenomenon at the end of the Ice Age. /.