solutrean hypothesis

The Solutrean hypothesis was first proposed in 1998.

The Solutrean hypothesis suggested that Europeans may have been among the first in the Americas.

It is described as possibly being the oldest art object yet found in the Americas, and may provide support for the Solutrean hypothesis.

Solving History with Olly Steeds: Solutrean Hypothesis (02:35)

An article in the American Journal of Human Genetics by researchers in Brazil argued against the Solutrean hypothesis.

Stanford and Bradley, in their book "Across Atlantic Ice," make a variety of claims in support of the Solutrean hypothesis.

Various articles by a group of researchers in Brazil (except for David Glenn Smith, of U.C. Davis) argue against the Solutrean hypothesis.

The Solutrean hypothesis is an alternative theory about the Settlement of the Americas, according to which peoples from Europe may have been among the earliest settlers of the American continent.

Strong similarities with points produced by the Solutrean culture in the Iberian peninsula have been noted, leading to the controversial Solutrean hypothesis that the technology was introduced by hunters traversing the Atlantic ice-shelf.

Their Solutrean Hypothesis is also based on evidence from the Clovis complex, but instead traces the origins of the Clovis toolmaking style to the Solutrean culture of Ice Age Western Europe.

Dennis Stanford, proponent of the controversial Solutrean hypothesis, suggests projectile points found in the 16,000 BP occupation layer pre-dating Clovis may provide an intermediary link between the Solutrean and Clovis cultures.

According to the Solutrean hypothesis, people associated with the Solutrean culture migrated from Ice Age Europe to North America, bringing their methods of making stone tools with them and providing the basis for the later Clovis technology found throughout North America.

Along with Prof. Bruce Bradley, Stanford is known for advocating the Solutrean hypothesis, which contends that stone tool technology of the Solutrean culture in prehistoric Europe may have influenced the development of the Clovis tool-making culture in the Americas.

The Solutrean Hypothesis postulates that haplogroup X reached North America with a wave of European migration about 20,000 BP by the Solutreans, a stone-age culture in south-western France and in Spain, by boat around the southern edge of the Arctic ice pack.

Solutreans: The first Americans or Ice Age Columbus: Who Were the First Americans is a 2005 Discovery Channel documentary and informative television special that follows archaeological evidence, along with other forms of evidence, to support the Solutrean hypothesis of the inhabiting of the Americas by humans.

"Our results strongly support the hypothesis that haplogroup X, together with the other four main mtDNA haplogroups, was part of the gene pool of a single Native American founding population; therefore they do not support models that propose haplogroup-independent migrations, such as the migration from Europe posed by the Solutrean hypothesis."