A series of fossilised drag-marks, likely to have been made by makeshift vehicles with wooden poles, were found alongside ancient human footprints at White Sands national park in New Mexico in the US.

A research team, led by Bournemouth University, discovered a series of drag-marks, likely to have been caused by makeshift vehicles made from wooden poles, alongside ancient human footprints at White ...

We capitalise on our unique location in one of the ... and the preservation of fragile fossil footprints. Professor Bennett was approached by the US National Park Service (NPS) to help them identify ...

These marks found with footprints could be from 22,000-year-old primitive sleds, making them the oldest vehicle tracks.

New research of drag marks found alongside ancient human footprints discovered in White Sands National Park may represent one ...

Learn about the tracks and footprints at White Sands National Park in New Mexico, possibly representing the earliest evidence ...

Footprints of adults and children alongside drag marks indicate Ice Age families used travois to transport goods.

Bennett et al, The ichnology of White Sands (New Mexico): Linear traces and human footprints, evidence of transport technology?, Quaternary Science Advances (2025). DOI: 10.1016/j.qsa.2025.100274 ...

These traces were found alongside some of the oldest known human footprints in the Americas at a place called White Sands in New Mexico. In the last few years, several footprint discoveries at ...

These traces were found alongside some of the oldest known human footprints in the Americas at a place called White Sands in New Mexico. In the last few years, several footprint discoveries at this ...