(September 27, 2011 at 10:58 pm)Minimalist Wrote: What do you think of Dennis Stanford's Solutrean Hypothesis?
I think Solutrean hypothesis is quite an extravagant (primitive watercraft maker crossing the always very difficult GIUK gap without leaving any evidence of crossing any other far easier waterways) hypothesis with only a small amount of low quality support. As such it can't seriously challenge the prevailing Siberia hypothesis.
The small amount of support it has is low quality because the supposedly similar tool technologies found in Europe and America did not come close to overlapping in time. In fact, these technologies are only know to have existed in Europe for about 3000 years, and then they vanished for 3000 years before supposedly making a reappearance in America for another 2000 years. If we are to believe that these technologies not only existed during the 3000 year gap, but also made the very difficult jump across GIUK gap during that gap, then we can with equal, if not greater, ease also believe that a yet unknown culture in Asia also independently developed similar techniques within the same window, and made a much easier jump across the baring straits, or the technology was completely independently arose inside america, or even that the european technology migrated eastward through osmosis across Siberian to America rather than westward via migration directly to America.
