15,500 years ago is pre-Clovis, which means we have to rewrite the timetable of when we think the first Asians crossed the Bering land mass to North America.
Maybe it wasn’t Asians and maybe it wasn’t across the Bering Straits. There are some who think it may have been from the east. There have been some interesting finds in following the path of the Solutreans. I’ve been commissioned 3 times in the last two years to make Solutrean style Laurel Leaf blades for class room examples. As for the points they found in Texas they just look like Hell Gap points that have been found in many states. The Hell Gap is just one of several examples of Paleo style points. If FR stops requiring third party hosting and comes out of the stone age I can show you several examples of Hell Gaps I’ve personally found here on the ranch. Since they’re using a different method of dating on this particular site other than carbon dating not everybody is taking this claim as fact. They used OSL to date the sediment and it’s not widely accepted. Has a higher margin of error than radiocarbon, but can be used in situations where carbon isn’t preserved, and it can date older material.
Here’s some examples of recovered Hell Gaps.
Even before the last ice age...