[Physicist]

Can they trace the Clovis-point tools to a specific tool tradition in Asia? If not, then it seems entirely likely that the technology was developed here in the Western Hemisphere, which would moot the question of whether the Clovis people "came first".

[george76]

" Previously, archaeologists thought Clovis arrived in North America about 13,600 years ago and vanished about 12,900 years ago. If Clovis hunters weren't the first Americans, then where did pre-Clovis peoples come from, and when did they arrive? That's one of the most hotly debated topics in archaeology.

Some researchers suggest the earliest American explorers sailed boats from northeastern Asia, then navigated down the West Coast, beginning 20,000 or more years ago."

http://www.rockymountainnews.com/drmn/local/article/0,1299,DRMN_15_5372456,00.html

They have traced a similar type point and made the argument that it is related. That is one of the argument points of the two different scientific camps...depending on which argument you believe.

[Slicksadick]

Blam has some links showing the remarkable similarities of Clovis points to points from the Iberian peninsula.

[Range Rover]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1013315/posts

Always the focus on Asia as the origin of Clovis. Why couldn't this "technology" have come from across the Atlantic instead of the Pacific?