A recent Canadian documentary promoted a fringe idea in American archaeology that’s both scientifically wrong and racist Last month’s release of The Ice Bridge, an episode in the Canadian Broadcasting ...

Here's the model from Wikipedia: This hypothesises similarities between the Solutrean industry and the later Clovis culture / Clovis points of North America, and suggests that people with Solutrean ...

One current hypothesis for the Pleistocene peopling of the Americas invokes a dispersal by European hunter-gatherers along a biologically productive “corridor” situated on the edge of the sea-ice that ...

These Clovis tools are very similar to the European Solutrean tools - giving rise to a theory that calls into question whether the first Americans actually came over a land bridge connecting Alaska ...

So exactly what is a Solutrean? The word “Solutrean” is derived from a place in eastern France, Solutre-Pouilly, where in 1866 and afterwards the archeologist Henry Testot-Ferry unearthed the bones of ...

The "Solutrean hypothesis" is a theory that claims the first people to arrive in the New World — the Americas — were from prehistoric Spain. It says they brought with them a distinctive way of making ...

When the crew of the Virginia scallop trawler Cinmar hauled a mastodon tusk onto the deck in 1970, another oddity dropped out of the net: A dark, tapered stone blade, nearly eight inches long and ...

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NEW YORK (Reuters) - For more than 20 years anthropologists have debated whether the first Americans arrived in the New World by walking over a land bridge across the Bering Strait, as millions of ...

Various estimates of when people first arrived in the Americas have been published in recent years, varying from 20,000 to more than 30,000 years ago. In the second half of the 20th century, many ...

Some 8,000 years before the West Coast was being populated by the Land Bridge Indians, another group of Ice Age humans had already migrated across the Atlantic from Europe to North America, Dennis ...

We finally have a definitive answer to the timeless mystery of where the First Americans came from: They walked across the Bering Straits from Asia (and not from southwest Europe paddling kayaks ...