A Solutrean Connection

A small group of prominent archaeologists suggests tht the people who gave rise to the Clovis phenomenon came across the North Atlantic Ocean from the Iberian peninsula, descendants of the very similar Solutrean culture

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THE SOULTREAN CONNECTION

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A small group of archaeologists, having become frustrated with their inability to find direct connection between Asia and the Americas, have begun to look elsewhere. Dennis Stanford of Smithsonian, stone tool specialist Bruce Bradley of Colorado, and Michael Collins of University of Texas, Austin, suggested that the earliest Americans, who gave rise to the Clovis Culture in America, are derived not from Siberia but from Iberia -- the European peninsula that includes Spain and Portugal. The Upper Paleolithic culture they have in mind in the Solutrean, which occupied Iberia and southwestern France from 25,000 to 19,700 years ago. Their premise is based on three observations: Clovis sites are older and most abundant in the south-eastern United States; nearly all characteristics of Clovis can be found in the Solutrean; and during the last glacial maximum, exposure of the continental shelves brought ice-free parts of Europe to within 1,400 miles of North America. They suggested that maritime-adapted Solutrean hunters-gatherers moved from northeastern Spain onto the continental shelf west of the British Isles and then, paddling skin-covered boats, worked their way along the permanent pack ice. Camping on ice floes, hunting and fishing from ice margin, they reached the ice free continental shelf east of what is now Newfoundland and moved southward along the broad, now-drowned costal plain into what is now the eastern United States. Stanford, taking the Eskimo umiak as an example of the kind of simple skin boat that could have been used, estimates that people could have made the trip in as little as two or three weeks -- a short enough voyage to have carried their own provisions. ` Page 260

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. . . Western Europe between approximately 20,000 and 18,500 years ago, made leaf-shaped stone spearpoints using overshot flaking, which allowed them to make thin, sharp blades. These blessed and other cultural attributes seen at sites in France and Spain have been called the Solutrean technocomplex by archaeologists. According to this theory, Solutreans carried their techniques for manufacturing blades across the ocean to North America during the great journey at the height of Ice Age, and 5,000 years later, Clovis projectile points were manufactured using the same appro

There is a gap of thousands of years between when Solutreans could have crossed the Atlantic and when Clovis points first start showing up in North America. . . . . What’s more, there haven’t been any Soluterean sites found in the Americas that date fo the intervening period (between about 20,000 years and 13,000 years ago) that contain Solutrean and Clovis-like points. Other sites from this period have been found, and their stone tools look nothing like Solutrean points. ` Page 47 / 49 ( From “Origin” ~ Author : Jennifer Raff)

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