13,000-Year-Old West Coast Footprints are the Oldest in North America

An analysis of 29 prehistoric footprints found on the west coast of Canada have revealed that they are 13,000 years old, making them the oldest known footprints in North America. While older archeological remains have been uncovered elsewhere on the continent, this find adds to the body of evidence that modern humans were present on North America's west coast well before the end of the last Ice Age, in this case over 2,500 years before the current geological era, the Holocene, began.

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