Ancient Footprints Push Back Date of Human Arrival in the Americas

No one 25,000 B.C. could have known about Uranus, Neptune, or Pluto. They probably wouldn't think of earth as a planet.

Maybe the 9 stands for 9 bright objects in the sky--the sun, the moon, Mercury as a morning star, Mercury as an evening star, Venus as a morning star, Venus as an evening star, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn.

Or perhaps the 8 brightest stars in the Big Dipper and Polaris. Ca. 25,000 B.C. Polaris would have been the bright star nearest the north pole.

They stole it from the megafauna

They were probably racists.

Many, many moons ago (a little indian lingo there) I had a double college major of Spanish and archeology. Excavating ancient America and Central America was fascinating, but it could not pay a mortgage. Back then the idea that man had only been in the Americas for a short time seemed ludicrous. I did not argue with older professors who would not consider that we really didn’t (don’t) know when and how it all happened. We keep finding more clues and information, and it is all so very cool.

In addition we demand casinos and free whisky.

Sorry but I can think of nothing more hypergolic than an Irishman and free WHISKEY (you forgot the 'e'!). Methinks you are flying a false flag as you seem more of a Sassenach!

Keywords Solutreans, MonteVerde, CactusHill, sorted and edited, and with one addition:

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An Inconvenient Truth About the First Peoples [04/11/2017]
New clues emerge about the earliest known Americans [11/21/2015]
The Iceman Cameth [Solutreans, Pre-Clovis] [10/02/2015]
Iberia's Neolithic Farmers Linked to Modern-Day Basques [09/08/2015]
Teams digging into history of the earliest people [07/25/2015]
Discoveries Challenge Beliefs on Humans' Arrival in the Americas [03/28/2014]
Montana Boy: Bones Show Ancestral Links to Europe [02/24/2014]
When Did Humans Come to the Americas? [01/27/2013]
Younger Dryas -The Rest of the Story! [06/21/2012]
New evidence suggests Cabot may have known of New World before voyage [05/07/2012]
America 'discovered by Stone Age hunters from Europe' [02/28/2012]
Ancestry of polar bears traced to Ireland [07/07/2011]
15,000-year-old campsite in Texas challenges conventional story of American settlement [03/25/2011]
First Americans arrived as 2 separate migrations, according to new genetic evidence [01/09/2009]
First Humans To Settle Americas Came From Europe, Not From Asia.... [07/03/2008]
Americas Settled 15,000 Years Ago, Study Says [03/13/2008]
Does Skull Prove That The First Americans Came From Europe? [11/24/2007]
Constructing The Solutrean Solution [08/28/2007]
Did comet start deadly cold snap? [05/16/2007]
Experts doubt Clovis people were first in Americas [02/23/2007]
Penon Woman [12/17/2006]
First Americans [05/23/2006]
NOVA | Mystery of the Megaflood | PBS [05/13/2006]
Archaeologist says Va. bolsters claim on how people got to America [ Solutrean ] [05/10/2006]
First Americans May Have Been European [02/19/2006]
Skull Study Suggests at Least Two Groups Colonized America [12/15/2005]
Stone Age Columbus [12/15/2005]
Catastrophic Flooding From Ancient Lake May Have Triggered Cold Period [12/18/2004]
The Solutrean Solution--Did Some Ancient Americans Come from Europe? [09/24/2004]
Sifting for Clues at W.Md. Dig [09/15/2004]
Stone Age Columbus - Questions And Answers [08/22/2004]
'First Americans' May Be Johnnies-Come-Lately (Topper Site) [08/22/2004]
Myth of the Hunter-Gatherer [08/13/2004]
Island Hopping To A New World [02/18/2004]
Rediscovering America. (The New World May Be 20,000 Years Older Than Experts Thought) [12/10/2003]
Immigrants From The Other Side (Clovis Is Solutrean?) [11/02/2003]
Iberia, Not Siberia [12/21/2003]
Erectus Ahoy (Stone Age Voyages) [10/22/2003]
Skulls Found In Mexico Suggest Early Americans Would Have Said 'G'Day Mate' [09/03/2003]
European DNA Found In 7-8,000 Year Old Skeleton In Florida (Windover) [08/14/2003]
Bye, Bye Beringia (8,000 Year Old Site In Florida) [08/11/2003]
Discovery casts doubt on Bering land bridge theory [08/04/2003]
PEOPLING OF THE AMERICAS: [07/25/2003]
Date Limit Set On First Americans [07/22/2003]
First Americans [07/15/2003]
Vintage Skulls [02/22/2003]
First Americans [10/06/2002]
Kenosha Dig Points to Europe as Origin of First Americans [03/04/2002]
Who Were the First Americans? [01/13/2002]
Calico: A 200,000-year Old Site In The Americas? [12/17/2001]
The First Americans May Have Come By Water [12/10/2001]

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no amount evidence supporting the Solutrean culture coming to the USA first would ever be accepted. The entire premise that Europeans are invaders who raped and pillaged the land from brown people is one of the core pillars the Marxists have built their platform upon.

Except the problem with your thesis is that at that point in time, Europeans were brown people.

doesn’t matter.... Europeans = evil.

Back to reality. There isn't any evidence for the Solutreans beyond the minor resemblance of some blades. The fact that the Solutrean hypothesis is out there suggests that real evidence would be well received.

Clovis first is clearly a false theory to explain the peopling of America. We’ve known this for a long, long time... Entire careers and institutions have been built upon the Clovis first falsehood. To suggest anything else was a career ender up until very recently. So, if not Clovis... then who? I am not bought into Solutrean at all... but I am very convinced, based on evidence, that people were here far before the Clovis culture emerged or came.

I really need the T shirt.

I don’t think Clovis First has been really advanced for many decades. That makes the way these articles are written kinda annoying. They have to insert the old theory. Advocating Not-Clovis first was certainly not a career ender for Adovasio. He made a very nice career out it.

Still very much advanced in the early 2000’s when I was in college. Adovasio would be the first to tell you how many will cling bitterly to Clovis first until their last breath…. especially well into the 2000’s.

Clinging to something and having your career ended by it are two different things. As they say, theories don’t die until the people advocating them do.

I know, but the evidence is trickling in. I find it fascinating.

Of course we demand free whiskey. God invented whiskey so the Irish wouldn’t rule the world.