They also serve as evidence of one of the oldest vehicles of all time—what’s known as a travois. The linear tracks from the poles and human footprints both date to roughly 22,000 years ago..

This illustration shows the two kinds of travois researchers think humans used while moving heavy goods in New Mexico. Gabriel Ugueto Roughly 22,000 years ago, humans pulled a primitive vehicle ...

As detailed in a study published in the journal Quaternary Science Advances, these marks were left behind by a type of sledge known as a travois. Think of it as a wheelbarrow without the wheels.

Researchers believe that the prints represent a transport arrangement known as travois. Such arrangements did not have wheels ...

Ancient Native Americans probably used makeshift “transport technology” to drag their possessions from place to place more than 20,000 years ago, a new study finds — and the evidence of the ...