{"id":13724,"date":"2025-04-11T16:05:21","date_gmt":"2025-04-11T23:05:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=13724"},"modified":"2025-04-17T16:12:09","modified_gmt":"2025-04-17T23:12:09","slug":"white-sands-ancients","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2025\/04\/11\/white-sands-ancients\/","title":{"rendered":"White Sands Ancients"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/national-parks\/article\/national-park-discovery-rewrites-human-history-20265734.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">from SFGate<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\">&#8216;A real chill&#8217;: National park discovery rewrites human history<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Evidence of 22,000-year-old vehicles was hiding beneath the sand<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>By\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/author\/adrianna-nine\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Adrianna Nine<\/a>,\u00a0Southwest Contributing Parks Editor<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Footprints from White Sands: Discovery, Dating, and Significance\" width=\"1080\" height=\"608\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/AcN4i8h5qL8?feature=oembed\"  allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Though it was underwater just 12,000 years ago,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/california-parks\/article\/national-park-april-fools-jokes-bring-levity-20253499.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">White Sands National Park<\/a>\u00a0\u2014 now an arid desert landscape \u2014 abounds with remnants of ancient human history. White Sands Missile Range, a Department of Defense-owned test area surrounding the park, features the world\u2019s largest collection of ice age footprints, which were left behind by people dependent on the region\u2019s bygone lake. Among those footprints, scientists have found new evidence of ancient activity recorded in the sand \u2014 and it\u2019s transforming their understanding of early human technology.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>These, too, are tracks, but not the kind left by feet. Instead, they belong to travois, the earliest form of terrestrial transportation currently known. Made with long sticks and a basket or net, these primeval vehicles look a bit like a wheelbarrow without the wheel: Pulling the lifted handle or handles moved the basket attached to the sticks, allowing a person to glide heavy cargo across the sand.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[ <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/national-parks\/article\/national-park-discovery-rewrites-human-history-20265734.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">click to continue reading at SFGate<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from SFGate &#8216;A real chill&#8217;: National park discovery rewrites human history Evidence of 22,000-year-old vehicles was hiding beneath the sand By\u00a0Adrianna Nine,\u00a0Southwest Contributing Parks Editor Though it was underwater just 12,000 years ago,\u00a0White Sands National Park\u00a0\u2014 now an arid desert landscape \u2014 abounds with remnants of ancient human history. White Sands Missile Range, a Department [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"off","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13724","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weirdness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13724","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13724"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13724\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13724"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13724"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13724"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}