Humans Have Had Vehicles Longer Than We've Had Agriculture: Study

22,000-Year-Old Tracks Found in US Could Be From World's First Vehicle

Archaeologists excavating a New Mexico National Park found tracks marking perhaps the oldest evidence of human vehicles ever discovered.

Humans Have Had Vehicles Longer Than We've Had Agriculture: Study

Researchers examined 22,000-year-old travois sled tracks that had been preserved in the mud of a long-dried New Mexico lakebed

Scientists Find Evidence of Vehicles From Tens of Thousands of Years Ago

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 been dated to 22,000 years ago. As detailed in a study published in the journal Quaternary Science Advances, these marks were left behind by a type of sledge known as a travois. Think of it as a wheelbarrow without the wheels. Typically comprising two w…

World, Mar 05, 2025 (ATB Digital).- The traces in the dry mud of White Sands have preserved a secret for millennia. They not only recorded the steps of our ancestors but also the marks of their technological ingenuity. A research team, led by the University of Bournemouth, discovered a series of drag marks, probably caused by improvised vehicles made of wooden poles, along with ancient human footprints in White Sands National Park, New Mexico. T…

Newly Discovered 22,000-Year-Old Tracks Are First Evidence of Human Transport on Land

22,000-year-old footprints and tracks discovered at White Sands suggest Ice Age humans were dragging heavy loads using a simple hand-drawn sled, many millennia before the wheel was invented.

Scientists have discovered early evidence of the transportation technology used by the first known settlers in the current territory of the United States, more than twenty thousand years ago. A research team, led by the University of Bournemouth and published in Quaternary Science Advances., discovered a series of trailing tracks, probably caused by improvised vehicles ?made with wooden poles, along with ancient human footprints in White Sands N…