Criticisms of the Solutrean Hypothesis
May 18, 2019
220,897
8,003
1,503
4.30%
Search the Record
IndexedEvery word spoken in this episode is indexed. Type any phrase to jump straight to the moment it was said.
Type any word or phrase that may have been spoken. Click a result to seek the player to that exact moment.
Try a name, a topic, or a quoted line
Stefan Milo Episodes Around May 18, 2019
See what was published immediately before and after this episode.
13:18Now PlayingCriticisms of the Solutrean Hypothesis
YouTube Description
as posted by the channelWere the first Native Americans from Europe? Probably not.
Sources:
Boulanger, Matthew T., and Metin I. Eren. “On the Inferred Age and Origin of Lithic Bi-Points from the Eastern Seaboard and Their Relevance to the Pleistocene Peopling of North America.” American Antiquity, vol. 80, no. 1, 2015, pp. 134–145., doi:10.7183/0002-7316.79.4.134134.
Eren, Metin I., et al. “More On The Rumor Of ‘Intentional Overshot Flaking’ And The Purported Ice-Age Atlantic Crossing.” Lithic Technology, vol. 39, no. 1, 2014, pp. 55–63., doi:10.1179/0197726113z.00000000033.
Fagundes, Nelson J.r., et al. “Mitochondrial Population Genomics Supports a Single Pre-Clovis Origin with a Coastal Route for the Peopling of the Americas.” The American Journal of Human Genetics, vol. 82, no. 3, 2008, pp. 583–592., doi:10.1016/j.ajhg.2007.11.013.
Lazaridis I, Patterson N, Mittnik A, et al. Ancient human genomes suggest three ancestral populations for present-day Europeans. Nature. 2014;513(7518):409–413. doi:10.1038/nature13673
Meltzer, David J. “Kennewick Man: Coming to Closure.” Antiquity, vol. 89, no. 348, 2015, pp. 1485–1493., doi:10.15184/aqy.2015.160.
O'brien, Michael J., et al. “On Thin Ice: Problems with Stanford and Bradley's Proposed Solutrean Colonisation of North America.” Antiquity, vol. 88, no. 340, 2014, pp. 606–613., doi:10.1017/s0003598x0010122x.
Posth, Cosimo et al. Reconstructing the Deep Population History of Central and South America
Cell , Volume 175 , Issue 5 , 1185 - 1197.e22
Phillips, Kelly M. “Solutrean Seal Hunters?” Journal of Anthropological Research, vol. 70, no. 4, 2014, pp. 573–600., doi:10.3998/jar.0521004.0070.404.
Raff, Jennifer A., and Deborah A. Bolnick. “Does Mitochondrial Haplogroup X Indicate Ancient Trans-Atlantic Migration to the Americas? A Critical Re-Evaluation.” PaleoAmerica, vol. 1, no. 4, 2015, pp. 297–304., doi:10.1179/2055556315z.00000000040.
Rasmussen, Morten, et al. “The Ancestry and Affiliations of Kennewick Man.” Nature, 2015, doi:10.1038/nature14625.
Sanchez, G., et al. “Human (Clovis)-Gomphothere (Cuvieronius Sp.) Association 13,390 Calibrated YBP in Sonora, Mexico.” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, vol. 111, no. 30, 2014, pp. 10972–10977., doi:10.1073/pnas.1404546111.
Straus, Lawrence Guy. “Solutrean Settlement of North America? A Review of Reality.” American Antiquity, vol. 65, no. 2, 2000, pp. 219–226., doi:10.2307/2694056.
Westley, Kieran, and Justin Dix. “The Solutrean Atlantic Hypothesis: A View from the Ocean.” Journal of the North Atlantic, vol. 1, 2008, pp. 85–98., doi:10.3721/j080527.
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
www.stefanmilo.com
www.twitter.com/Historysmilo
www.instagram.com/historysmilo
Guests & Subjects Covered
Sentinel Indexing in Progress
Metadata and chapters are available. Claim extraction for this episode is pending.
All video content is delivered via YouTube embedded players in accordance with the YouTube Terms of Service. Sentinel provides research tools that promote discovery and accountability across political media.









