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Martina L. Steffen (2025), ‘Comment on North American Pacific Coastal Migration Theory and the Last Glacial Maximum Age of Human Tracks at White Sands, New Mexico,’ PaleoAmerica. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/20555563.2025.2600141.

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White Sands Footprints

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Later peer-reviewed critical comment that keeps the chronology and migration-inference debate visible.

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White Sands Footprints

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The association of dated materials with individual track surfaces, site formation, and the narrowest defensible age range remain under technical debate.

Association of dated materials with individual surfaces, site formation, and the narrowest defensible age range.
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Human tracks occur in an LGM-age depositional sequence.

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The 2021 age model placed key White Sands track-bearing layers at about 23,000–21,000 years ago; later radiocarbon and luminescence work supports an LGM-age sequence without directly dating every footprint.

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Martina L. Steffen (2025), ‘Comment on North American Pacific Coastal Migration Theory and the Last Glacial Maximum Age of Human Tracks at White Sands, New Mexico,’ PaleoAmerica. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/20555563.2025.2600141.

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