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10,000-year-old footprints show journey of squirmy toddler and caregiver – Livescience.com
They were followed by a mammoth and giant sloth.
More than 10,000 years ago on the playa of what is now New Mexico, a woman on a journey set down the toddler she was carrying on her hip, readjusted, then picked up the child and set off again.
The remnants of this all-too-human moment are preserved in a trackway found in White Sands National Park the longest late Pleistocene double human trackway found anywhere in the world. At 0.9 miles (1.5 kilometers) long, the set of tracks preserves an out-and-back journey taken at a fast clip by a singl…
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