Posted on 05/10/2006 10:09:18 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
The Smithsonian archaeologist pursuing the contentious claim that ancient Europeans fleeing the Ice Age settled in America says artifacts unearthed in the Chesapeake Bay region support his theory. Smithsonian Institution curator of archaeology Dennis Stanford argues that about 18,000 years ago, Solutrean hunters from the coasts of France, Spain and Portugal followed seals and other marine mammals for their fur, food and fuel across a partially frozen north Atlantic Ocean to the New World... "Pre-Clovis is a fact in North and South America," archaeologist Michael Collins of the University of Texas at Austin said this year at a symposium on the topic... Pre-Clovis culture represents a transition between Solutrean and Clovis cultures, according to Stanford. Not only do the pre-Clovis sites fill the time gap, but they are conveniently located near the Atlantic coast of Europe and North America, he noted. The Solutrean people lived about 16,000 to 22,000 years ago, during the height of European glaciation. They lived in protected coves in southwestern France and coastal Spain and Portugal that they left in the fall and winter. Stanford says Solutrean cave art in northern Spain appears to depict speared seals, although other scientists disagree.
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Ojibwe = Chippewa, aka Anishinabe, that's what they call themselves.
And they are't a "Northeast" tribe, they started out around the Great Lakes.
Linguistically Algonkian, and there were Algonkians all up and down the East Coast, but not Ojibwe/Chippewa/Anishinabe.
"And they are't a "Northeast" tribe, they started out around the Great Lakes."
"Linguistically Algonkian, and there were Algonkians all up and down the East Coast, but not Ojibwe/Chippewa/Anishinabe."
Thanks. I learn something every day. LOL. I didn't know any of that.
When the French trappers first encountered the Ojibwe/Chippewa/Anishinabe, it was around Sault St. Marie. They got pushed west, eventually, to North Dakota/Manitoba, but their culture was based on the Great Lakes. They depended on wild rice, fish and water birds.
Not much of that on the Great Plains.
I wonder if they can explain what happened to all the copper that went missing in that area in ancient times. (Hmmm. I wonder if that may be where they got the haplotype X?)
"Archaeological evidence from around the Lake Superior basin confirms that these ancient miners were the ancestors of the region's Native American people. It is likely that they spoke variants of northern Algonquian languages, so in general, archaeologists refer to them as ancestors of northern Algonquian peoples. The Ojibwa (or Chippewa) of today can trace their roots to these ancient tribes. They, along with the Ottawa tribes and others, were the first inhabitants of the region and have been residents of the Upper Great Lakes for centuries. These groups are collectively referred to as the First Nations (Martin 2001)."
Looks like the Bering Strait theory is losing traction.More accurately, Clovis-First-and-Only has lost traction, mainly because it's dead as an ancient arrowhead.
Well, that too.
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