“We're not here to belittle you; we're just searching for legitimate answers, which could help prove the validity of the Solutrean connection. Example”
Well pkfrey, with respect, I'll do my best.
1.) The Solutreans would have stepped ashore on the North Eastern American coast. You must remember that many coastal areas that were above ocean 25,000 years ago soon were submerged by rising sea levels.
However, they would have inhabited those areas and would have begun exploring for marine resources such as seals and fish and also would have searched for lithic resources and land mammals.
The earliest Solutreans may have inhabited coastal areas that are now submerged and any tools they were using are still there. However since they are the Clovis progenitors, the tools they used would have been indistinguishable from those used by the early classic Clovis people on the Del Marva Peninsula.
A reading of Drs. Stanford’s and Bradley’s book goes into the archaeological discoveries on the Cantabrian coast of Spain have revealed that Solutrean people who lived there before the sea levels rose were making projectile points that would have meshed nicely with Classic Clovis points.
2.) Something that helped people survive the cold journey would have the skin boats the Solutreans were using. Those boats would have served nicely as shelters when pulled up on the ice because that’s all people had to do when they wanted or needed to stop to warm up or rest. I doubt fires needed to be built since the skin boat shelters and the extra skins for clothing (that would have been brought along) should have kept the boat occupants cozy and warm (under theit boat tent) during the night or when storms forced them to get out of the water.
3.) They did because Ivory has been found at several North American such as the East Wenatchee Clovis site, Anzick Clovis site in South Western Montana, Sheaman Clovis site in Wyoming, Murray Springs, located in Southern Arizona, and in Blackwater Draw.
Many of the first Solutrean occupation sites on the North Eastern American coast and now under water and I am hopeful that underwater archaeological investigations and more land archaeological excavations in the Del Marva Peninsula can find some of these still in context.
There was a pretty extensive good bone tool industry in Florida that is early enough to be Solutrean/American that is still under investigation.
4.) To me, I really find it unlikely that folks would have brought much rock with them from Spain. They were traveling in skin boats however, it would really be cool if the under water archaeology and further land excavations in the Del Marva area produce some extra local lithics.
5.) This is an easy one because the answer has been covered in Across The Ice. When the site dates on some of the Cantabrian Spanish coastal Solutrean sites were tightened up it became the key evidence that convinced Drs Stanford and Bradley that it really was a possibility that Clovis could have come from there. They discovered those dates overlapped the Clovis horizon here. There was no longer a cultural time gap.
Well pkfrey, with respect, I'll do my best.
1.) The Solutreans would have stepped ashore on the North Eastern American coast. You must remember that many coastal areas that were above ocean 25,000 years ago soon were submerged by rising sea levels.
However, they would have inhabited those areas and would have begun exploring for marine resources such as seals and fish and also would have searched for lithic resources and land mammals.
The earliest Solutreans may have inhabited coastal areas that are now submerged and any tools they were using are still there. However since they are the Clovis progenitors, the tools they used would have been indistinguishable from those used by the early classic Clovis people on the Del Marva Peninsula.
A reading of Drs. Stanford’s and Bradley’s book goes into the archaeological discoveries on the Cantabrian coast of Spain have revealed that Solutrean people who lived there before the sea levels rose were making projectile points that would have meshed nicely with Classic Clovis points.
2.) Something that helped people survive the cold journey would have the skin boats the Solutreans were using. Those boats would have served nicely as shelters when pulled up on the ice because that’s all people had to do when they wanted or needed to stop to warm up or rest. I doubt fires needed to be built since the skin boat shelters and the extra skins for clothing (that would have been brought along) should have kept the boat occupants cozy and warm (under theit boat tent) during the night or when storms forced them to get out of the water.
3.) They did because Ivory has been found at several North American such as the East Wenatchee Clovis site, Anzick Clovis site in South Western Montana, Sheaman Clovis site in Wyoming, Murray Springs, located in Southern Arizona, and in Blackwater Draw.
Many of the first Solutrean occupation sites on the North Eastern American coast and now under water and I am hopeful that underwater archaeological investigations and more land archaeological excavations in the Del Marva Peninsula can find some of these still in context.
There was a pretty extensive good bone tool industry in Florida that is early enough to be Solutrean/American that is still under investigation.
4.) To me, I really find it unlikely that folks would have brought much rock with them from Spain. They were traveling in skin boats however, it would really be cool if the under water archaeology and further land excavations in the Del Marva area produce some extra local lithics.
5.) This is an easy one because the answer has been covered in Across The Ice. When the site dates on some of the Cantabrian Spanish coastal Solutrean sites were tightened up it became the key evidence that convinced Drs Stanford and Bradley that it really was a possibility that Clovis could have come from there. They discovered those dates overlapped the Clovis horizon here. There was no longer a cultural time gap.
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