Credit: Washington Post:
Forty years later, this rediscovered prehistoric slasher has reopened debate on a radical theory about who the first Americans were and when they got here.
Categories: Europe, United States
Credit: Washington Post:
Forty years later, this rediscovered prehistoric slasher has reopened debate on a radical theory about who the first Americans were and when they got here.
Categories: Europe, United States
Interesting! Used to hear that in astronomy 1 = 100 and that still rings true as, in most cases, we cannot go there to verify the theoretical finds. The same seems to be true for archeology now; as anyone with a couple of artifacts and fertile imagination can spin a “plausible” yarn.
The author of the new theory of Europeans being the earliest settlers in America has a few stone blades which resemble European blades in use some 25,000 years ago. Solutreans as a choice for the earliest settlers of Americas is also interesting as they have left no trace of themselves, except for some carvings. That these people built canoes is plausible, but I do not see then pedaling all the way across Atlantic.
One of my reasons for not quite believing this new theory is that in the Stone Age folks were hunters and gatherers. They would not venture too far away from land as that was a part of their existence. Some could have accidentally washed ashore after a storm put them in one of those fast currents in the ocean. But they could not have caused a population though they could have left their tools behind.
The other reason for my reluctance to believe this new theory is that I firmly believe that a population starts when a population moves in. This happened when some 12000 years ago the Chinese came along a land bridge that is now under the Bering Sea. The theory is plausible and quite popular with the archeologists. I do not know if others have thought about it but my belief gets a confirmation from the fact that a sizeable number of the Chinese people do not have full beards and when the European settlers came to America they found that men among the natives had no beards.