Researchers uncovered evidence at White Sands National Park in New Mexico that suggests prehistoric humans used travois, a simple sled-like device, to transport their belongings over 20,000 years ago.

Researchers say they’re some of the earliest known examples of transport vehicles Sarah Kuta Daily Correspondent This illustration shows the two kinds of travois researchers think humans used ...

They also serve as evidence of one of the oldest vehicles of all time—what’s known as a travois. The linear tracks from the poles and human footprints both date to roughly 22,000 years ago..

They used a “vehicle” called a travois, researchers said in a Feb. 20 study published in the peer-reviewed journal Quaternary Science Advances. “We use the term ‘travois’ broadly to ...

Dating back roughly 22,000 years, these marks- left by wooden poles dragged behind ancient travelers- point to the use of a travois, a rudimentary vehicle that predates the wheel by thousands of ...

A pole or poles used in this fashion is called a travois. These drag-marks are preserved in dried mud that was buried by sediment and revealed by a combination of erosion and excavation.

Footprints next to the marks indicate that humans, not animals, pulled the travois to transport goods. Children’s footprints also often appeared near the drag marks, suggesting they walked ...

New research points to the travois — a device usually consisting of two poles joined together to carry a heavy load — as the source of these linear tracks, possibly representing the earliest evidence ...

A pole or poles used in this fashion is called a travois. These drag-marks are preserved in dried mud that was buried by sediment and revealed by a combination of erosion and excavation.

The travois was dragged along the ground to carry meat, game, or other supplies. Scientists are well aware of its use, but this is by far the oldest example, predating the invention of the wheeled ...