Footprints put people on Canada’s west coast 13,000 years ago
29 fossil prints provide rare evidence of early New World settlers’ coastal travels

FOOT FALL Human footprints on a Canadian island date to around 13,000 years ago. One print (left) revealed toe impressions after digital enhancement (right, near peaked line).
D. McLaren et al/PLOS ONE 2018
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