art ifacts beneath the sea....
Stanford (Smithsonian Institution) and Bradley (Exiter), in their book Across Atlantic Ice, muster a range of evidence in support of the Solutrean hypothesis. They cite similarities between artifacts of the Clovis culture and certain finds from Maryland, Pennsylvania, Virginia and Delaware. In addition, they claim to be able to carbon-date many new discoveries from the Delmarva Peninsula in Maryland to between 26,000 and 19,000 BC—the period in which comparable artifacts were being created in Europe. According to their book, no materials of human manufacture from before 15,000 years BP have been found on the West Coast anywhere near the time that the Siberian ancestors of the Amerinds are thought to have first crossed into the New World.[ citation needed]
Atlantic crossing
Water temperatures during the last glacial maximum, according to CLIMAP.
The Solutrean hypothesis posits that Ice Age Europeans crossed the North Atlantic along the edge of the pack ice that extended from the Atlantic coast of France to North America during the last glacial maximum. The model postulates that these people made the crossing in small watercraft, using skills similar to those of the modern Inuit people: hauling out on ice floes at night, getting fresh water by melting iceberg ice or the first-frozen parts of sea ice, getting food by catching seals and fish, and using seal blubber as heating fuel. Among other evidence, they cite the discovery in the Solutrean toolkit of bone needles, similar to those still in use among modern Inuit. [6] As well as enabling the manufacture of waterproof clothing from animal skins, these needles could, in theory, have also been used to construct kayaks from hides. |
