Sediment from a lake eventually covered up their footprints and the vehicle’s drag marks, preserving them for millennia. Now, archaeologists have discovered these long-hidden tracks, which ...

Researchers discovered sled-like drag marks alongside ancient footprints at White Sands National Park in New Mexico — potentially the oldest human footprint site in North America. Indigenous ...

Uncannily preserved in the sands of New Mexico, archaeologists have discovered the oldest evidence yet of a vehicle used by humans: drag marks, along with footprints, left in the ground that have ...

Drag marks found in White Sands National Park, New Mexico, may belong to the earliest known vehicle, researchers say. Bournemouth University The invention of the wheel more than 5,000 years ago ...

At White Sands, we found drag-marks made by the ends of wooden poles while excavating for fossil footprints. Sometimes these appear as just one trace, while at other times they occur as two ...

These sleds carried everything from houses to children before horses arrived. Footprints next to the drag marks suggest adults pulled the sleds while children walked alongside—a prehistoric ...