A recent Canadian documentary promoted a fringe idea in American archaeology that’s both scientifically wrong and racist Last month’s release of The Ice Bridge, an episode in the Canadian Broadcasting ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The word “Solutrean” is derived from a place in eastern France, Solutre-Pouilly, where in 1866 and afterwards the archeologist ...

These Clovis tools are very similar to the European Solutrean tools - giving rise to a theory that calls into question whether the first Americans actually came over a land bridge connecting Alaska ...

The "Solutrean hypothesis" is a theory that claims the first people to arrive in the New World — the Americas — were from prehistoric Spain. It says they brought with them a distinctive way of making ...

The most widely accepted theory goes that the peopling of the Americas began during the Paleolithic period when hunter-gatherers entered North America from Siberia. Proponents of this argument say ...

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Some 8,000 years before the West Coast was being populated by the Land Bridge Indians, another group of Ice Age humans had already migrated across the Atlantic from Europe to North America, Dennis ...

When the crew of the Virginia scallop trawler Cinmar hauled a mastodon tusk onto the deck in 1970, another oddity dropped out of the net: A dark, tapered stone blade, nearly eight inches long and ...