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Solutreanism
Abstract
The comments of Stanford and Bradley (above) do not address our criticisms and obfuscate the topic at hand with irrelevant data (e.g. the south-to-north movement of fluted points through the Ice Free Corridor), nonexistent data (e.g. ‘under the water’ or ‘destroyed sites’), and questionable data (e.g. Meadowcroft and Cactus Hill are by no means widely accepted, nor are Stanford and Bradley's ‘eight LGM sites’ in the mid-Atlantic region). Before touching on some of these points, we direct the reader to several recent articles (e.g. Morrow 2014; Raff & Bolnick 2014) that provide new evidence or arguments inconsistent with a trans-Atlantic migration, including the fact that DNA from the Clovis Anzick child (Montana) shows no European ancestry (Rasmussen et al. 2014). Although Stanford and Bradley describe their Solutrean ‘solution’ (Stanford & Bradley 1999) to the Pleistocene colonisation of North America as ‘testable’, their position is that the idea is correct until falsified. They propose that their colleagues have yet to provide sufficient ‘critiques’ or ‘challenges’ to discount it (see also Collins 2012; Collins et al. 2013). Yet they are the ones proposing a hypothesis inconsistent with overwhelming multidisciplinary evidence, and they ignore results of tests that do not support their claims.
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The genome of a Late Pleistocene human from a Clovis burial site in western Montana
Rasmussen, M., Anzick, S. L., Waters, M. R., Skoglund, P., DeGiorgio, M., Stafford, T. W., Rasmussen, S., Moltke, I., Albrechtsen, A., Doyle, S. M., et al. (2014) · Nature · doi:10.1038/nature13025 · Cited by 562
The North Atlantic ice-edge corridor: A possible Palaeolithic route to the New World
Bradley, B., & Stanford, D. J. (2004) · World Archaeology · doi:10.1080/0043824042000303656 · Cited by 194
Across Atlantic Ice: The Origin of America's Clovis Culture
Stanford, D. J., & Bradley, B. A. (2012) · doi:10.1525/9780520949676 · Cited by 120
Refuting the technological cornerstone of the Ice-Age Atlantic crossing hypothesis
Eren, M. I., Patten, R. J., O'Brien, M. J., & Meltzer, D. J. (2013) · Journal of Archaeological Science · doi:10.1016/j.jas.2013.02.031 · Cited by 98
Self-citationMORE ON THE RUMOR OF “INTENTIONAL OVERSHOT FLAKING” AND THE PURPORTED ICE-AGE ATLANTIC CROSSING
Eren, M. I., Patten, R. J., O’Brien, M. J., & Meltzer, D. J. (2014) · Lithic Technology · doi:10.1179/0197726113z.00000000033 · Cited by 45
Self-citationGenetic roots of the first Americans
Raff, J. A., & Bolnick, D. A. (2014) · Nature · doi:10.1038/506162a · Cited by 30
The Solutrean-Clovis connection: reply to Straus, Meltzer and Goebel
Bradley, B., & Stanford, D. J. (2006) · World Archaeology · doi:10.1080/00438240601022001 · Cited by 24
CONTROLLED OVERSHOT FLAKING: A RESPONSE TO EREN, PATTEN, O'BRIEN, AND MELTZER
Lohse, J. C., Collins, M. B., & Bradley, B. (2014) · Lithic Technology · doi:10.1179/0197726113z.00000000032 · Cited by 21
ACROSS ATLANTIC ICE: THE ORIGIN OF AMERICA'S CLOVIS CULTURE
Morrow, J. E. (2014) · Lithic Technology · doi:10.1179/0197726113z.00000000028 · Cited by 15
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- Collins, 2013, Paleoamerican odyssey, 521
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The geographic origin of Clovis technology: Insights from Clovis biface caches
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Metadata
- Authors
- O'Brien, M. J., Boulanger, M. T., Collard, M., Buchanan, B., Tarle, L., Straus, L. G., & Eren, M. I.
- Affiliations
- University of Missouri (US)
- University of Tulsa (US)
- Simon Fraser University (CA)
- University of New Mexico (US)
- University of Kent (GB)
- Venue
- Antiquity
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press (CUP)
- Published
- 2014-06-01
- Volume
- 88
- Issue
- 340
- Pages
- 622-624
- ISSN
- 0003-598X (ISSN-L)
- 1745-1744
- OpenAlex
- W4244456858
- Cited by
- 8
- References
- 9
- Citations by year
- 2021: 1 · 2018: 4 · 2015: 3
- FWCI
- 3.12
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Antiquity (publishedVersion)
- Funders
- Smithsonian Institution
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Anthropology › Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology
- Social Sciences › Archeology › Archaeology and ancient environmental studies
- Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › Archeology (arts and humanities) › Archaeological and Geological Studies
- Keywords
- transatlantic migration, Clovis, fluted points, ice-free corridor, European ancestry
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