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The North Atlantic ice-edge corridor: A possible Palaeolithic route to the New World

2004; Routledge; Volume: 36; Issue: 4 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1080/0043824042000303656

1470-1375

Bruce Bradley, Dennis J. Stanford,

Pacific and Southeast Asian Studies

The early peopling of the New World has been a topic of intense research since the early twentieth century. We contend that the exclusive focus of research on a Beringian entry point has not been productive. Evidence has accumulated over the past two decades indicating that the earliest origin of people in North America may have been from south-western Europe during the last glacial maximum. In this summary we outline a theory of a Solutrean origin for Clovis culture and briefly present the archaeological data supporting this assertion.