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The Solutrean keyword, sorted:

Etched in sands of time: 'We knew they were old' (Human footprints - oldest known humans in America 23,000 years ago) [09/24/2021]
Fossil footprints show humans in North America more than 21,000 years ago [09/24/2021]
Ancient Footprints Push Back Date of Human Arrival in the Americas [09/23/2021]
Rethinking the First Americans [05/19/2019]
And two became one: ancient American lineages reunited to head south [06/01/2018]
An Inconvenient Truth About the First Peoples [04/11/2017]
New clues emerge about the earliest known Americans [11/21/2015]
The Iceman Cameth [Solutreans, Pre-Clovis] [10/02/2015]
Iberia's Neolithic Farmers Linked to Modern-Day Basques [09/08/2015]
Montana Boy: Bones Show Ancestral Links to Europe [02/24/2014]
When Did Humans Come to the Americas? [01/27/2013]
Younger Dryas -The Rest of the Story! [06/21/2012]
New evidence suggests Cabot may have known of New World before voyage [05/07/2012]
America 'discovered by Stone Age hunters from Europe' [02/28/2012]
Ancestry of polar bears traced to Ireland [07/07/2011]
15,000-year-old campsite in Texas challenges conventional story of American settlement [03/25/2011]
First Americans arrived as 2 separate migrations, according to new genetic evidence [01/09/2009]
First Humans To Settle Americas Came From Europe, Not From Asia.... [07/03/2008]
Americas Settled 15,000 Years Ago, Study Says [03/13/2008]
Does Skull Prove That The First Americans Came From Europe? [11/24/2007]
Constructing The Solutrean Solution [08/28/2007]
Did comet start deadly cold snap? [05/16/2007]
Experts doubt Clovis people were first in Americas [02/23/2007]
Penon Woman [12/17/2006]
NOVA | Mystery of the Megaflood | PBS [05/13/2006]
Archaeologist says Va. bolsters claim on how people got to America [ Solutrean ] [05/10/2006]
First Americans May Have Been European [02/19/2006]
Stone Age Columbus [12/15/2005]
Catastrophic Flooding From Ancient Lake May Have Triggered Cold Period [12/18/2004]
The Solutrean Solution--Did Some Ancient Americans Come from Europe? [09/24/2004]
Sifting for Clues at W.Md. Dig [09/15/2004]
Stone Age Columbus - Questions And Answers [08/22/2004]
'First Americans' May Be Johnnies-Come-Lately (Topper Site) [08/22/2004]
Myth of the Hunter-Gatherer [08/13/2004]
Island Hopping To A New World [02/18/2004]
Iberia, Not Siberia [12/21/2003]
Rediscovering America. (The New World May Be 20,000 Years Older Than Experts Thought) [12/10/2003]
Immigrants From The Other Side (Clovis Is Solutrean?) [11/02/2003]
Skulls Found In Mexico Suggest Early Americans Would Have Said 'G'Day Mate' [09/03/2003]
European DNA Found In 7-8,000 Year Old Skeleton In Florida (Windover) [08/14/2003]
Bye, Bye Beringia (8,000 Year Old Site In Florida) [08/11/2003]
Discovery casts doubt on Bering land bridge theory [08/04/2003]
Peopling of the Americas: Late Date for Siberian Site Challenges Bering Pathway [07/25/2003]
Date Limit Set On First Americans [07/22/2003]
First Americans [07/15/2003]
Vintage Skulls [02/22/2003]
First Americans [10/06/2002]
Kenosha Dig Points to Europe as Origin of First Americans [03/04/2002]
Calico: A 200,000-year Old Site In The Americas? [12/17/2001]
The First Americans May Have Come By Water [12/10/2001]

Lack of fat?

This is a highly unlikely claim if ever I heard one.

Maybe they just didn’t like fish?

The most likely explanation is that the researchers are wrong. These ancient people ate and liked fish.

Could the absence of fish be due to differential preservation: big animal bones preserved; frail fishbones not? Maybe it was an artifact of the study method? Did they really not eat fish for a thousand years or more – and if so, why did they then change habit? Maybe they just didn’t like fish?

No frying pans for those 1,000 years.

One part of the article explains the key reasons - a. what was abundently available and b. how much meat protein can be obtained for X amount of effort, which makes obtaining one multi-hundred pound herbivore more human fuel efficient than the effort to obtain an equalivalent amount of protein from a whole lot of fish.

All their kids threw a hissy fit one day, and nobody managed to put a firm grip on them. A thousand years later, the government made fish consumption mandatory on all flights in and out of Alaska and they relented

First fish they ate was poisonous so they thought all the fish were poisonous.

Their main problem was that there were no local offices where they could get a fishing license...

Very easily explained - freshwater fishing isn’t very efficient, particularly if they lacked nets, sieves or fishing lines and hooks - and at low population levels land game would have been very abundant. Hunting beat fishing on a calorie per hour basis, to say nothing of the incremental yield of hide and bone. Once population levels led to nearby areas being hunted out, fishing would start to be worth the effort, including development and use of fishing technology.

Hi.

This sounds fishy.

5.56mm

Because they got tired of going through this every time to get fish

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aaRRMbPwdwc

No beer? There’s no sense going fishing if you don’t have any beer to drink.

Given the scientists mention around 13,000 years ago, that would be about the time of the great northern hemisphere bolide strike(s). It is suggested this hastened the extinction of the very large land mammals, like mammoths, etc. Loss of the large mammals would force the remaining humans to eat smaller items like fish, rabbits, deer, etc. Also if many humans were also killed the survivors might have formed much small bands not able to easily kill the remaining large animals such as bisons.

Time to show the Firestone book.

“You know fish is great brain food.”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6oq7gOa8Yfg