Clovis Points to Spain
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Clovis Points.......to Spain. Who were the first humans to inhabit North America? And are the Clovis tools Asian in origin?
According to the now familiar story, mammal hunters entered the continent some 12,000 years ago via a land bridge that spanned the Bering Sea. Distinctive stone tools belonging to the Clovis culture established the presence of these early New World people.
Drawing from original archaeological analysis, paleoclimatic research, and genetic studies, noted archaeologists Dennis J. Stanford and Bruce A. Bradley challenge the old narrative and, in the process, counter traditional - and often subjective - approaches to archaeological testing for historical relatedness.
In Across Atlantic Ice: The Origin of America's Clovis Culture the authors apply rigorous scholarship to a hypothesis that places the technological antecedents of Clovis in Europe and posits that the first Americans crossed the Atlantic by boat and arrived earlier than previously thought.
Supplying archaeological and oceanographic evidence to support this assertion, the book dismantles the old paradigm while persuasively linking Clovis technology with the culture of the Solutrean people who occupied Spain and France more than 20,000 years ago.
Across Atlantic Ice: The Origin of America's Clovis Culture
Publication Date: 17 Feb 2012
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing (2 Aug 2012)
ISBN-10: 0520227832
ISBN-13: 978-0520227835
Read more in the Book Review section:
http://www.bradshawfoundation.com/books/across_atlantic_ice.php
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