Holocene-aged human footprints from the Cuatrocienegas Basin, NE Mexico

Holocene-aged human footprints from the Cuatrocienegas Basin, NE Mexico

Two sets of well-preserved human footprints have been found in tufa sediments in the Cuatrociénegas Basin, NE Mexico, and here we present their U-series dates of 10.55 � 0.03 ka and 7.24 � 0.13 ka. The former are the oldest known footprints in Mexico, although their exact location is unknown, the la...

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Main Authors: Felstead, Nicholas J., Gonzalez, Silvia, Huddart, David, Noble, Stephen R., Hoffmann, Dirk L., Metcalfe, Sarah E., Leng, Melanie J., Albert, Bruce M., Pike, Alistair W.G., Gonzalez-Gonzalez, Arturo, Jimenez-Lopez, Jose Concepcion
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2014
Subjects:
human footprints
tufa
Cuatrociénegas
Palaeoindian
Mexico
Online Access:https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/30836/

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