Fluted Spear Points Prove Early Native Americans Liked to Travel

SciNews ^ | April 3, 2018 | News Staff / Source

[SunkenCiv]

Analyses of numerous spear points with fluted edges found in northern Alaska and Yukon, and artifacts from further south in Canada, the Great Plains, and eastern United States, prove that the Ice Age peopling of the Americas was much more complex than previously believed... "Using new digital methods of analyses utilized for the first time in such a study of these artifacts, we found that early settlers in the emerging ice-free corridor of interior western Canada were traveling north to Alaska, not south from Alaska, as previously interpreted," said co-author Professor Ted Goebel, an anthropologist with Texas A&M University. "Although during the late Ice Age there were two possible routes for the first Americans to follow on their migration from the Bering Land Bridge area southward to temperate North America, it now looks like only the Pacific coastal route was used, while the interior Canadian route may not have been fully explored until millennia later, and when it was, primarily from the south." ...newer genetic studies of ancient Siberians, Alaskans, and Americans, as well as the discovery of new sites south of the Canadian ice sheets predating the opening of the ice-free corridor, suggest instead that the first Americans passed along the Pacific coast.

[ApplegateRanch]

I'll believe it when I see their suitcases and the typical destination T-shirts.......

Tourists that come, buy the T-shirts, and go home are fine; it's those pushy expats who muscle in, then stay without assimilating, and corrupt local customs and values, who are the problem.

[blam]

"...prove that the Ice Age peopling of the Americas was much more complex than previously believed..."

[ComputerGuy]

I still think Clovis is an Eastern point type. When you consider the pre-Clovis artifacts from the Eastern U.S. and their similarity to Solutrean artifacts from France/Spain it's hard to ignore the European angle.

I once heard Dennis Stanford say that there are more Clovis sites on the shores of the Delaware Bay than anywhere else in the Country.

[SunkenCiv]

/bingo

And the gap in time pertains to the lower sealevel that prevailed for a long period — transitional forms, if any, are underwater now.

[ComputerGuy]

We’re in agreement on the Clovis issue.
Stanford also says that transitional types have been
found on the Maryland eastern shore.

[blam]

Immigrants From The Other Side (Clovis Is Solutrean?)

Iberia, Not Siberia

Bye, Bye Beringia (8,000 Year Old Site In Florida)