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Ice Age Footprints
Season 49
Episode 9
Ancient footprints in New Mexico’s White Sands National Park reveal new evidence of Ice Age humans that walked the land alongside enormous ground sloths and mammoths—thousands of years earlier than archaeologists thought people were in the Americas.
- Airdates
- Monday Dec 15, 8:00 PM PST on PBS SoCal Encore
- Tuesday Dec 16, 3:00 PM PST on PBS SoCal
- Tuesday Dec 16, 4:00 PM PST on PBS SoCal WORLD
- Tuesday Dec 16, 9:00 PM PST on PBS SoCal WORLD
- Wednesday Dec 17, 2:00 AM PST on PBS SoCal Encore
- Wednesday Dec 17, 5:00 AM PST on PBS SoCal WORLD
- Wednesday Dec 17, 8:00 AM PST on PBS SoCal Encore
- Wednesday Dec 17, 2:00 PM PST on PBS SoCal Encore
- Saturday Dec 20, 7:00 PM PST on PBS SoCal Encore
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