This Cave in New Mexico Held Fingerprints in Fired Clay Claimed to Be Up to 37,000 Years Old

#PendejoCave #PreClovis #FirstAmericans Look closely at this lump of burnt clay. Those faint curving ridges? That's what forensic examiners look for on skin. Apparently human handprints. Pressed into a fire pit inside a cave in the New Mexico desert. And the layer it came from was claimed to be up to thirty-seven thousand years old. The textbooks said nobody was in the Americas before thirteen thousand. The man who dug it was no crank. He'd helped uncover the origins of corn. The field discounted his dates. Then he died on a road in Belize. And twenty years later, the same desert answered back. So let's go to the cave. It's called Pendejo Cave. It's a small opening in a limestone hill near Orogrande, in the southern part of New Mexico. It isn't in a national park or on a tourist trail. It's on military land, inside the Fort Bliss range. Soldiers trained around it. Most people have never heard of it. Subscribe for more mind-blowing ancient history discoveries! 👉 https://www.youtube.com/@OriginsRevealedYT?sub_confirmation=1 Sources : Facts: R. S. "Scotty" MacNeish led excavations from 1990 to 1993; the site had clay-lined fire pits with apparent human finger and palm prints still impressed in the hardened clay and possibly human hair. MacNeish estimated the oldest layers might date back 75,000 years; Farrand suggested 37,000 or 55,000 B.P. As of 2004 the early dating had been discounted by many archaeologists. MacNeish died in a car crash in Belize on January 17, 2001, at 82. This one is a "great character, disputed claim" story — present it that way.