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This Solutrean biface was found during excavation in the early 1900's in a rock shelter called Le Ruth.
Some scientists believe that the Solutrean peoples were responsible for much of the cave art in Europe.
Only Solutrean spear points from Spain and France had the same precise design of the American Clovis points.
However, a 2008 article in the American Journal of Human Genetics by researchers in Brazil took up the argument against the Solutrean hypothesis.
A route through Beringia is seen as more likely than the Solutrean hypothesis.
It is described as possibly being the oldest art object yet found in the Americas and may yet provide hope for the Solutrean hypothesis.
Although they were originally mostly considered Aurignacian, the majority are now associated with the Gravettian and Solutrean.
The hypothesis is based on similarities between European Solutrean and Clovis lithic technologies.
The Solutrean may be seen as a transitory stage between the flint implements of the Mousterian and the bone implements of the Magdalenian epochs.
The Solutrean toolkit includes the world's earliest identifiable sewing needles.
In all cases, the art of Chauvet can be attributed to the Gravettian, Solutrean and Magdalenian.
This culture soon superseded the Solutrean area and the Gravettian of mainly France, Spain, Germany, Italy, Poland, Portugal and Ukraine.
Namely, it deals with the time span between the Late Middle Palaeolithic and the Solutrean.
The Solutrean toolmaking industry disappeared from Europe around 17,000 years ago, replaced by the lithic technology of the Magdalenian culture.
The Solutrean has relatively finely worked, bifacial points made with lithic reduction percussion and pressure flaking rather than cruder flintknapping.
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.
The Solutrean hypothesis about the settlement of the Americas claims that people from Europe may have been among the earliest settlers of the Americas.
An article in the January 2012 issue of the American Journal of Physical Anthropology tends to argue against the Solutrean theory on genetic grounds.
This period saw cultures such as the Solutrean in France and Spain.
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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The chief invention of the late Solutrean is the 'shouldered point', a single notched and very slender dart.
This type of flint is constantly found associated with rudely formed prototypes of the Solutrean laurel-leaf point.
From middle Aurignacian on through Solutrean times these denizens of the extreme north disappear from this region of Europe.
The human sculptures are determined to be of late Aurignacian age, because they are buried in an early Solutrean talus.
According to de Mortillet, the Solutrean method of pressure made possible the execution of much more delicate work.
Thus it would appear that the artistic spirit, more or less dormant in Solutrean times, was revived.
In all the Solutrean stations, beside the bone implements, we find two distinct classes of flints.
Solutrean sagaies, however, are very rare and very primitive as compared with the Magdalenian.
The artistic work of Solutrean times is not so rich as that of the Aurignacian.
Solutrean or Early Magdalenian activities included the movement of cave bear bones and stalactite blocks, and the creation of most of the second phase of the black series.
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