Ancient Travois Footprints Found

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

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Drag marks, along with footprints, left in the ground of White Sands National Park in New Mexico , dated to 22,000 years ago .

The marks were left behind by a type of sledge known as a travois, a wooden sledge that would have been pulled across the ground carrying meat, game or other supplies.

This is by far the oldest example, predating the invention of the wheeled vehicle in Mesopotamia by 17,000 .

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