[hecht]

perhaps they are the ancestors of the Amerindians if there is any truth to the Salutrean hypothesis

[Defiant]

I believe they are probably related to the bands of hunters that followed the ice around from Europe to North America, creating the Clovis culture. We know that modern humans have been in Europe for tens of thousands of years, yet the Indo-European speaking didn't arrive until around 5000 years ago. The Indo-Europeans didn't kill everyone, they just dominated enough that their language took over. The same thing almost happened when the Normans conquered England, English might have died out had not the Norman kings adopted it (while revising the language so that the majority of the words are french/latin in origin.)

Anyway, it appears that the Cllovis people were in the east coast at least 12,000 years ago, and their arrow heads and other technology resembled the technology of the people who lived at the same time in Iberia. There is evidence that the original people of Iberia and the British Isles are from a common culture as well, so the original Clovis people may have been Welsh! More accurately, there was probably a common culture in western Europe during the end of the last ice age, and it was that culture from which the Clovis people came.