This Solutrean biface was found during excavation in the early 1900's in a rock shelter called Le Ruth. |
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Some scientists believe that the Solutrean peoples were responsible for much of the cave art in Europe. |
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Only Solutrean spear points from Spain and France had the same precise design of the American Clovis points. |
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However, a 2008 article in the American Journal of Human Genetics by researchers in Brazil took up the argument against the Solutrean hypothesis. |
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A route through Beringia is seen as more likely than the Solutrean hypothesis. |
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It is described as possibly being the oldest art object yet found in the Americas and may yet provide hope for the Solutrean hypothesis. |
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Although they were originally mostly considered Aurignacian, the majority are now associated with the Gravettian and Solutrean. |
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The hypothesis is based on similarities between European Solutrean and Clovis lithic technologies. |
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The Solutrean may be seen as a transitory stage between the flint implements of the Mousterian and the bone implements of the Magdalenian epochs. |
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The Solutrean toolkit includes the world's earliest identifiable sewing needles. |
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In all cases, the art of Chauvet can be attributed to the Gravettian, Solutrean and Magdalenian. |
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This culture soon superseded the Solutrean area and the Gravettian of mainly France, Spain, Germany, Italy, Poland, Portugal and Ukraine. |
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Namely, it deals with the time span between the Late Middle Palaeolithic and the Solutrean. |
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The Solutrean toolmaking industry disappeared from Europe around 17,000 years ago, replaced by the lithic technology of the Magdalenian culture. |
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The Solutrean has relatively finely worked, bifacial points made with lithic reduction percussion and pressure flaking rather than cruder flintknapping. |
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The 3,000 to 5,000 radiocarbon year gap between the Solutrean period of France and Spain and the Clovis of the New World also makes such a connection problematic. |
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The Solutrean hypothesis about the settlement of the Americas claims that people from Europe may have been among the earliest settlers of the Americas. |
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An article in the January 2012 issue of the American Journal of Physical Anthropology tends to argue against the Solutrean theory on genetic grounds. |
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This period saw cultures such as the Solutrean in France and Spain. |
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The study may put to rest an idea, known as the Solutrean hypothesis, that ancient Europeans crossed the Atlantic and established the Clovis culture in the New World. |
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Good examples include the very rare and exceptionally large and thin, non-functional Solutrean laurel leafs, and the ceremonial bifaces used by California Indians in rituals. |
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