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Footprints Show First Americans Came 25,000 Years Early?

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« on: February 28, 2009, 06:49:38 am »








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To attempt to date once again the indentations, Gonzalez's team used a new method called optically stimulated luminescence.

This involved collecting samples in the dark, then irradiating them with an atomic reactor.

When ultraviolet light is shone onto the irradiated samples, the resulting fluorescence reveals how long it has been since the rock was last exposed to sunlight—or volcanic heat.

With the new method, the dates of the bedrock fragments and the magma from the site in Mexico match—and revealed the date of the eruption itself, Gonzalez said.

"We couldn't possibly do this even five years ago," Gonzalez said.

Just to be sure, her team also used carbon-14 dating to determine the ages of shells in the sediments above and below the ash layer.

"You can't date just one layer," she said. "You have to makes sure the whole stratigraphy makes sense."

The sediments immediately below the ash were between 70,000 and 100,000 years old, Gonzalez's team found.

The sediments immediately above the ash ranged from 9,000 to 40,000 years old. The dates of all three layers therefore suggest the footprints were made about 40,000 years ago, she said.
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