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Refuting the technological cornerstone of the Ice-Age Atlantic crossing hypothesis

Eren, Metin I., Patten, Robert J., O'Brien, Michael J., Meltzer, David J.·2013·Journal of Archaeological Science

Abstract

The “North Atlantic Ice-Edge Corridor” hypothesis proposes that sometime during the Last Glacial Maximum, roughly 26,500–19,000 years ago, human populations from southern France and the Iberian Peninsula made their way across the North Atlantic and colonized North America. A key element of that hypothesis is the apparent similarity between stone-tool-production techniques of Solutrean peoples of Western Europe and Clovis and purportedly pre-Clovis peoples of eastern North America, most especially the supposed intentional use of “controlled overshot flaking,” a technique for thinning a bifacial stone tool during manufacture. Overshot flakes, struck from prepared edges of the tool, travel across the face and remove part of the opposite margin. Experimental and archaeological data demonstrate, however, that the most parsimonious explanation for the production of overshot flakes is that they are accidental products created incidentally and inconsistently as knappers attempt to thin bifaces. Thus, instead of representing historical divergence, overshot flakes in Clovis and Solutrean assemblages mark convergence in the use of the same simple solution for thinning bifaces that produced analogous detritus.

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Authors
Eren, M. I., Patten, R. J., O'Brien, M. J., & Meltzer, D. J.
Affiliations
  • University of Kent (GB)
  • Southern Methodist University (US)
Corresponding author
Eren, Metin I.
Venue
Journal of Archaeological Science
Publisher
Elsevier BV
Published
2013-07
Volume
40
Issue
7
Pages
2934-2941
ISSN
0305-4403 (ISSN-L)
OpenAlex
W1984587077
Cited by
98
References
46
Citations by year
2026: 2 · 2025: 2 · 2024: 1 · 2023: 1 · 2022: 1 · 2021: 20 · 2020: 8 · 2019: 3 · 2018: 13 · 2017: 7 · 2016: 8 · 2015: 16 · 2014: 12 · 2013: 3
FWCI
36.58
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
closed
Locations
  • Journal of Archaeological Science (publishedVersion)
  • Kent Academic Repository (University of Kent) (submittedVersion)
Topics
  • Social Sciences › Anthropology › Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology
  • Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › Archeology (arts and humanities) › Archaeological and Geological Studies
  • Social Sciences › Archeology › Archaeology and ancient environmental studies
Keywords
Last Glacial Maximum, Solutrean, Clovis, pre-Clovis, bifacial stone tools, stone tool knapping, experimental archaeology, technology convergence, Iberian Peninsula

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