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Footprints in the ash

Humans may have been walking around what is now central Mexico 40,000 years ago

By Sid Perkins

- More than 2 years ago

Footprints left in volcanic ash that fell in central Mexico’s ValsequilloBasin about 40,000 years ago are evidence that humans have inhabited the Americas far longer than previously confirmed, a new study suggests.

HUMAN PRINTS Footprints (one left) left in volcanic ash that fell in central Mexico’s Valsequillo Basin about 40,000 years could be evidence that humans have inhabited the Americas far longer than previously confirmed.