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What does the Solutrean hypothesis propose?
The Solutrean hypothesis on the peopling of the Americas claims that the earliest human migration to the Americas took place from European Solutreans walking along pack ice in the Atlantic Ocean.
Who created the Solutrean hypothesis?
Two scholars, Dennis Stanford from the Smithsonian Institution and Bruce Bradley from the University of Exeter in England, proposed a theory of immigration from Europe via the Atlantic Ocean over 20,000 years ago.
Why are Clovis points important?
The Clovis Point was a versatile tool, called a ‘projectile point’ by archaeologists, that helped hunters deal with large animals and the dangers of the Ice Age. It was so effective that people traded and used it all across North America, which explains why it’s found in so many places.
Who are the eternal Solutreans?
After all, the name of the movement I intend to establish, worldwide, is THE ETERNAL SOLUTREANS. In a nutshell, whites from Ice Age France, the Solutreans, named after Solutré in France, came here first, to North America, around 20,000 BC, not way later in the “ADs” with, as the saying went, ….”Columbus sailing the ocean blue in 14 hundred and 92.”
What is Solutrean tool-making?
Solutrean tool-making employed techniques not seen before and not rediscovered for millennia. The Solutrean has relatively finely worked, bifacial points made with lithic reduction percussion and pressure flaking rather than flintknapping.
What is the origin of the word Solutrean?
The term Solutrean comes from the type-site of ” Cros du Charnier “, dating to around 21,000 years ago and located at Solutré, in east-central France near Mâcon. The Rock of Solutré site was discovered in 1866 by the French geologist and paleontologist Henry Testot-Ferry.
Where are Solutrean sites found?
Solutrean sites have been found in modern-day France, Spain and Portugal. The term Solutrean comes from the type-site of ” Cros du Charnier “, dating to around 21,000 years ago and located at Solutré, in east-central France near Mâcon. The Rock of Solutré site was discovered in 1866 by the French geologist and paleontologist Henry Testot-Ferry.