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Ice Age Atlantis? Exploring the Solutrean-Clovis ‘connection’

Straus, Lawrence Guy, Meltzer, David J., Goebel, Ted·2005·World Archaeology
DOI 10.1080/00438240500395797
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Bradley and Stanford (2004 Bradley, B. and Stanford, D. 2004. The North Atlantic ice-edge corridor: a possible Palaeolithic route to the New World. World Archaeology, 36: 459–478. [Taylor & Francis Online], [Web of Science ®] , [Google Scholar]) have raised now, in several instances, the claim that European Upper Paleolithic Solutrean peoples colonized North America, and gave rise to the archaeological complex known as Clovis. They do so in the face of some obvious challenges – notably the several thousand miles of ocean and the 5000 radiocarbon years that separate the two. And yet they argue in their recent paper that the archaeological evidence in support of a historical connection is ‘overwhelming’. We are profoundly skeptical of this claim; we believe that the many differences between Solutrean and Clovis are far more significant than the few similarities, the latter being readily explained by the well-known phenomenon of technological convergence or parallelism. The origin and arrival time of the first Americans remain uncertain, but not so uncertain that we need to look elsewhere other than north-east Asia.

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  • The genome analysis refutes the possibility that Clovis originated via a European (Solutrean) migration to the Americas.

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Straus, L. G., Meltzer, D. J., & Goebel, T.
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World Archaeology
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Informa UK Limited
Published
2005-12
Volume
37
Issue
4
Pages
507-532
ISSN
  • 0043-8243
  • 1470-1375
DOI
10.1080/00438240500395797
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