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Ice Age American families pulled travois 22,000 years ago, White Sands discovery shows
Researchers uncovered evidence at White Sands National Park in New Mexico that suggests prehistoric humans used travois, a simple sled-like device ... being used to pull the travois at Alkali ...
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These 22,000-Year-Old Tracks Could Be From World's First Vehicle
While animals have been used to pull sleds elsewhere across the world, the study highlights that that humans were the sole travois drivers in New Mexico. “This unique footprint record,” the ...
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These Tracks Reveal Evidence of 22,000-Year-Old Wheelbarrows—But Without the Wheels
Bournemouth University Many of the drag marks intersect with tracks of human footprints, likely left behind by the people pulling the travois. In some cases, additional sets of footprints indicate ...
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Travois tracks at White Sands National Park indicate earliest human transport devices
Ten thousand years before humans developed agriculture or built the first cities in Mesopotamia, Ancient Native Americans ...