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Alexandra Bruce
April 20, 2013
Written with excerpts from Wikipedia:
The Solutrean hypothesis of a European origin for some Indigenous Americans along the East Coast of North America builds on similarities between the Solutrean industry and the later Clovis culture and Clovis spear points of North America, suggesting that people with Solutrean tool-technology native to modern-day France and Spain crossed the Ice Age Atlantic by moving along the pack ice edge, using survival skills similar to that of modern Eskimo people.
The migrants arrived in northeastern North America and served as the donor culture for what eventually developed into Clovis tool-making technology. Archaeologists Dennis Stanford and Bruce Bradley suggest that the Clovis point derived from the points of the Solutrean culture of southern France 19,000 Before Present (BP) through the Cactus Hill points of Virginia 16,000 BP to the Clovis point.
This would mean that people would have had to move from the Bay of Biscay across the edge of the Atlantic ice sheet to North America. Supporters of this hypothesis believe it would have been feasible using traditional Eskimo techniques still in use today, while others argue that the conditions at the time would not have made such a journey likely.
The idea of a Clovis-Solutrean link remains controversial and does not enjoy wide acceptance. The hypothesis is challenged by large gaps in time between the Clovis and Solutrean eras, a lack of evidence of Solutrean seafaring, lack of specific Solutrean features in Clovis technology, and other issues.
This Clovis culture, sometimes referred to as “Paleo-Indian” was eventually all but decimated in what is theorized to have been a low density comet exploding above or impacting with the Laurentide ice sheet about 12,900 years ago in the area around modern-day Michigan and Ontario, which at the time was buried beneath a sheet of ice three miles thick, as proposed by Richard Firestone et al. This impact left a sheet of microdiamonds throughout the Northern Hemisphere, as far away as Germany.
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Freedom3777
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