The Solutrean hypothesis on the peopling of the Americas is the claim that the earliest human migration to the Americas began from Europe during the Solutrean Period, with Europeans traveling along pack ice in the Atlantic Ocean.

The Solutrean / s ə ˈ lj uː t r i ə n / industry is a relatively advanced flint tool-making style of the Upper Paleolithic of the Final Gravettian, from around 22,000 to 17,000 BP. Solutrean sites have been found in modern-day France, Spain and Portugal.

2023年6月7日 · The Solutrean Hypothesis claims that around 21,000 years ago, people from the Eastern region of France migrated to North America and brought with them their unique lithic (stoneworking) techniques. These were dispersed across the Americas and developed into the Clovis lithic technique made famous in the Americas.

The 'Solutreans' were an ancient people who lived in what is today Spain, Portugal and southern France during the last Ice Age over twenty thousand years ago. According to the cave art they left...

Solutrean industry, short-lived style of toolmaking that flourished approximately 17,000 to 21,000 years ago in southwestern France (e.g., at Laugerie-Haute and La Solutré) and in nearby areas. The industry is of special interest because of its particularly fine workmanship.

2018年2月23日 · Professor Stanford said these mysterious Stone Age Europeans were known as the Solutreans, and they occupied Spain, Portugal, and southern France more than 20,000 years ago. They paddled along an ice cap jutting into the North Atlantic and lived like Inuits, harvesting seals and seabirds. 'Ice Bridge Theory'

The Solutrean hypothesis claims that the earliest human migration to the Americas took place from Europe, during the Last Glacial Maximum.

With the publication of Across Atlantic Ice (Stanford and Bradley 2012), the Solutrean Hypothesis is no longer simply a theoretical proposition but an extensively detailed model of a Pleistocene colonization of the Americas from Europe across the North Atlantic. This format has allowed for a greatly developed description of the proposed.

A culture circumscribed in time (26,500-23,000 years ago) and space (from the Paris basin to Portugal), Solutrean takes its name from the site of Solutré (Saône-et-Loire). This culture, subdivided into four stages, emerged between the last two glacial maximums.

Solutrean a continuum with each phase evolving indigenously into the next, or does each phase reflect new stimuli from elsewhere? What clues do the earliest Solutrean levels provide to even earlier ancestral periods? And what was hap­ pening at the end of Solutrean times just before the Solutrean culture was replaced by the Magdalenian?