Ice Age Atlantis? Exploring the Solutrean-Clovis 'connection
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3919586 |
|---|---|
| Authors | L G Straus (0000-0003-0348-3338, University of New Mexico, corresponding author), D J Meltzer (0000-0001-8084-9802, Southern Methodist University), T Goebel (0009-0009-7531-7217, University of Nevada, Reno) |
| Year | 2005 |
| Volume | 37 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 507-532 |
| Publication date | 2005-12-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | World Archaeology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0043-8243 • E-ISSN: 1470-1375 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/00438240500395797 |
| OpenAlex | W2037086242 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 55 |
| References cited | 63 |
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
Archaeology · Cave · Magdalenian · Radiocarbon dating · Skepticism · Upper Paleolithic · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies · Geology · Geology and Paleoclimatology Research · History · Paleontology · Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology
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The Future of Paleolithic Studies
Peopling of the Americas
Peopling of the Americas
The Initial Colonization of North America
Embattled Excavations. Colonial and Transcultural Constructions of the American Deep Past
Probing deeper into first American studies
The genome of a Late Pleistocene human from a Clovis burial site in western Montana
Mitochondrial Population Genomics Supports a Single Pre-Clovis Origin with a Coastal Route for the Peopling of the Americas
J. R. R. Tolkien's Legendarium as Heterodox Palaeoscience
Introduction to Papers in Honor of Bruce Huckell
Does Mitochondrial Haplogroup X Indicate Ancient Trans-Atlantic Migration to the Americas? A Critical Re-Evaluation
A Framework for the Initial Occupation of the Americas
More on Clovis Learning
Genetic Evidence against a Paleolithic European Contribution to Past or Present Native Americans
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Sudden Deaths
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Innovation and cultural transmission in the American Paleolithic
Why we're still arguing about the Pleistocene occupation of the Americas
Genetic studies of the peopling of the Americas
The Cinmar discovery and the proposed pre-Late Glacial Maximum occupation of North America
Coastlines, Submerged Landscapes, and Human Evolution
Double, Double, Toil, and Trouble
Pleistocene Settlement in the East
Controlled Overshot Flaking
More on the Rumor of “Intentional Overshot Flaking” and the Purported Ice-Age Atlantic Crossing
A Circum-Pacific Perspective on the Origin of Stemmed Points in North America
A North American perspective on the Volgu Biface Cache from Upper Paleolithic France and its relationship to the “Solutrean Hypothesis” for Clovis origins
Similarities and differences in the lifestyles of populations using mode 3 technology in North Africa and the south of the Iberian Peninsula
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Human colonization and late pleistocene lithic industries of the Americas
The Upper Paleolithic of the Americas
The Paleoamerican Occupation of the Plains of Uruguay
Phenetics, cladistics, and the search for the Alaskan ancestors of the Paleoindians
Peopling the last new worlds
Setting the Stage
Living on the river edge
A Tale of Two Migrations
Pleistocene Human Settlement in the Southeastern United States
Refuting the technological cornerstone of the Ice-Age Atlantic crossing hypothesis
Early colonization of Beringia and Northern North America
Mitochondrial haplogroup C4c
Pre-Clovis Lithic Technology at the Debra L. Friedkin Site, Texas
Reply to O'Brien et al
The Solutrean Atlantic Hypothesis
Ten years of Solutreans on the ice
On thin ice
Solutrean hypothesis
On the Inferred Age and Origin of Lithic Bi-Points from the Eastern Seaboard and their Relevance to the Pleistocene Peopling of North America
Radiocarbon Dating the Human Occupation at Sandia Cave, New Mexico
Solutrean Seal Hunters
Archaeological Roots of Human Diversity in the New World
Investigating the peopling of North America through cladistic analyses of Early Paleoindian projectile points
The solutrean-clovis connection
The Quaternary period in the United States
Clovis blade technology
A Hypothesis for the Use of Cryptocrystalline Raw Materials Among Paleoindian Groups of North America
The cultures of the Middle Palaeolithic/Middle Stone Age
Peopling of North America
Early Paleoindian foraging
An outline of North American deglaciation with emphasis on central and northern Canada
Bone Foreshafts from a Clovis Burial in Southwestern Montana
MtDNA Haplogroup X
The Archaeology of Ushki Lake, Kamchatka, and the Pleistocene Peopling of the Americas
Fluted Projectile Points: Their Age and Dispersion
The Colonization of Beringia and the Peopling of the New World
The Yana RHS Site
Late Quaternary paleoenvironments of Northwestern North America
The Antiquity of Man and the Development of American Archaeology
Human Adaptation at the Pleistocene—Holocene Boundary (circa 13,000 to 8,000 bp) in Eastern Beringia
The first Americans
Craniofacial morphology of the first Americans
Distribution of mtDNA haplogroup X among Native North Americans
Craniofacial morphology of the first Americans
Radiocarbon Chronology and the Lateglacial and Early Postglacial Resettlement of the British Isles
Solutrean Settlement of North America? A Review of Reality
Thoughts on Solutrean Concave Base Point Distribution
The Role of Raw Materials in Lithic Assemblage Variability
Studies on the Early Settlement of Scotland and Ireland
The evolution of Paleoindian geochronology and typology on the Great Plains
Reply to Van Vark et al
The Archaeology and Paleoecology of the Aubrey Clovis Site (41DN479) Denton County, Texas
The Contribution of Radiocarbon Dating to New World Archaeology
The Settlement of the American Continent. A Multidisciplinary Approach to Human Biogeography
Kennewick and Luzia
Variation among early North American Crania
Human Geography of the Late Upper Paleolithic in Western Europe
Upper Paleolithic Hunting Tactics and Weapons in Western Europe
The Recovery and First Analysis of an Early Holocene Human Skeleton from Kennewick, Washington
Late pleistocene human adaptations in eastern North America
Technology, Flaked Stone Technology, and Risk
Microlithic Technology in Northern Asia
The North Atlantic ice-edge corridor
Clovis and Folsom age estimates
Early Upper Palaeolithic in the Russian Plain
The Kennewick Follies
Late Pleistocene Settlement in the Nenana Valley, Central Alaska
The Three Sides of a Biface
A Fluted Point from the Old World
The Upper Palaeolithic and the New World
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