January Public Lecture Flyer, 2024

Evidence of humans in North America during the Last Glacial Maximum

Ancient human footprints at White Sands National Park and their implications for the peopling of the Americas

by Kathleen Springer & Jeff Pigati, USGS Geoscience & Environmental Change Science Center

• How old are the footprints? How do we know?
• What is the role of USGS scientist in this discovery?
• What's the link between these footprints & climate change?

January 25th, 2024, at 6PM PST

Resource links: 

• Fossilized Footprints (National Park Service)
• Bennett et al., 2021, Evidence of humans in North America during the Last Glacial Maximum, Science.
• Philippsen, B., Dating the arrival of humans in the Americas, Science.