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Ha, thanks Roger, just checking to see anyone was paying attention! You probably know the Solutreans also invented and consumed pasta.
Yep I did mean French and Spanish.
I have included an excerpt below that I have placed in italics because it was taken from the report and have also posted the link to that report below. In addition, a link to the actual paper is also posted directly below that.
If one looks at picture of the fluted points which I have included, Dr Goebels notes “these they are very similar technologically and morphologically to fluted points from other surface or near-surface Alaskan sites-they have deeply concave bases and multiple flutes, and technologically they seem to have been fluted using an instrument-assisted approach. The results of our work suggest that fluted-point technology spread into Alaska from temperate North America after the time of Clovis.”
I agree with his excellent observations because it also looks to me after looking at the points/pieces that were recovered there, the points were either heavily re-sharpened or apparently not made and fluted like other Clovis fluted points found throughout North America and especially in the Eastern U.SA. They do resemble some late fluted forms that occur in different areas in the U.S.A.
Clovis points from other areas in which Clovis occurs, especially the Gault site, throughout the Tennessee River Valley, the Illinois area all feature classic Outré Passé (aka Overshot Flake removals) from the perform preparation. These flake removals are still visible on the Clovis points that have been not heavily re-sharpened.
Dr Goebels notes that “The fluted points from Serpentine resemble fluted points from temperate America dating to 13,000-12,500 years ago. It was previously thought that these early fluted points spread from Alaska, being carried southwards through an ice-free corridor (left map). But the fluted points at Serpentine are not old enough to fit this theory. Instead, fluting technology may have originated in the southern United States among people who had arrived earlier, perhaps by boat along the south coast of Beringia. Now it would seem that fluted points were brought northwards as glaciers melted and early peoples explored the newly opened territory of western Canada. Research at Serpentine is funded by the Shared Beringia Heritage Program of the NPS, the National Science Foundation and National Geographic Society.”
I would like to add and Dr Goebels also states that this discovery does make any claim that either fluted points nor Clovis was brought to North America over the Bering Strait. And in my opinion neither has it lessened the strong possibility that Clovis might actually had Solutrean fathers.
The vast territory of North and Central Asia represents a poorly understood region in the prehistoric era, despite intensive excavations that have been conducted during the past century. The earliest human occupation in this region probably began sometime around 40 000 years ago. Small groups of big-game hunters likely migrated into this region from lands to the south and southwest, confronting a harsh climate and long, dry winters. By about 22 000 BP, two principal cultural traditions had developed in Siberia and northeastern Asia: the Mal'ta - Buret' and the Afontova Gora-Oshurkovo. The Mal'ta - Buret' tradition is known from a vast area spanning west of Lake Baikal and the Yenisey River. The site of Mal'ta is composed of a series of subterranean houses made of large animal bones and reindeer antler which had likely been covered with animal skins and sod to protect inhabitants from the severe, prevailing northerly winds. Among the artistic accomplishments evident at Mal'ta are remains of expertly carved bone, ivory, and antler objects. Figurines of birds and human females are the most commonly found items. The type sites are named for the villages of Mal'ta (Мальта), Usolsky District and Buret' (Буреть), Bokhansky District. The Mal'ta site is located on the left bank of the Belaya, a tributary of the Angara, itself a tributary of the Yenisei, and it is one hundred kilometres northwest of Irkutsk and Lake Baikal. Discovered in 1928, it has had many excavations carried out successively by Sergei N. Zamiatnine, G. P. Sosnovskii and especially by Mr. Michail Gerasimov, who worked there for over thirty years.
So kick it back one notch from Solutrean.
\"For you were made from dust, and to dust you will return.\"
That is interesting because if this is true, it points once again toward Europe. I have always believed that Clovis origins are rooted in the European Upper Paleolithic. Despite the fact that every modern pure blooded American Indian is directly related to Eastern Asians, it is looking more and more like the true blade technology from which Clovis descended came from Europe.
This is why the Clovis spotlight is still on the Solutreans.
Burin from Excavation Area 8 at the Gault Site (41BL323)
What I've found particularly interesting are the similarities between the: Vero Beach, European Magdalenian and Mal'ta mammoth engravings; and Clovis beveled bone rods:
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