A set of fossil human footprints or "ichnites" on a beach at Claromecó on the Southern coast of Buenos Aires Province, in Argentina was dated to 30,000 years BP according to a paper.
Located 200 km northeast of the northern tip of Patagonia on the Atlantic coast between Bahia Blanca and Necochea, the human prints were associated with other prints of megafaunal animals.
The paper (Azcuy, C. L.; Carrizo, H. A.; Tonni, E. P.; Panarello, H.; Amenábar, C. R. 2021. "Late Pleistocene fossil hominid tracks on the beaches of Claromecó, Argentina". Acta Geológica Lilloana 33 (2): 43-57. doi: https://doi.org/10.30550/j.agl/2021.33.2/2021-08-03) states:
"Fossil ichnites of hominids found in Argentina are identified and described. The age of the sediments was determined using radiocarbon dating, by Uranium, OSL and paleomagnetic signatures of the sediments, along with an analysis of the associ-ated megammalian tracks and their fossil bones. We conclude that the fossil ichnites dated about 30 ka BP."
The evidence for an early peopling of America continues to grow
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