The Solutreans loved the shorelines. As a flint knapper I try and replicate all of the various points and styles, right now I’m replicating various Solutrean style blades and points. The suggested path of the Solutreans to the Americas is very plausible considering the landscape at the time. Early drawings/art left by them leads me to believe they were much more advanced than most think.
Excellent skill to learn.
My thought is that the remains we see today are from various groups of hunters and traders who lived far from the shorelines of that time when sea level was far lower. They gathered products and meats to trade with the peoples who lived along the shorelines.
When the ice melted, all that remained (and what we find today) are fragments of an outlier society.
What and who lived along the last glacial maximum shoreline is totally unknown and buried beneath hundreds of feet or more of sediment.
Good call, gleeaikin, I probably should have posted the link to the Cycles of book. :^)
In her 'Plato Prehistorian: 10,000 to 5000 B.C. Myth, Religion, Archaeology', Mary Settegast reproduces a table which shows four runic character sets; a is Upper Paleolithic (found among the cave paintings), b is Indus Valley script, c is Greek (western branch), and d is the Scandinavian runic alphabet.
