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Ice Age Footprints

Season 49 Episode 9 | 53m 32s | WETA Passport

Ancient footprints in New Mexico’s White Sands National Park reveal new evidence of Ice Age humans that walked the land alongside enormous ground sloths and mammoths—thousands of years earlier than archaeologists thought people were in the Americas.

Aired: 05/25/22 | Expires: 05/24/25 | Rating: NR

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