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Tuesday, February 28th, 2012

New Evidence Suggests Stone Age Hunters From Europe Discovered America

Author:     DAVID KEYS
Source:     The Independent (UK)
Publication Date:     Tuesday 28 February 2012
 Link: New Evidence Suggests Stone Age Hunters From Europe Discovered America
Stephan:   For many years I have felt the evidence supported the diffusionist explanation, not the simple linear narrative that was dogma in archaeology until very recently. As late as the 1990s the gospel of archaeology was no inhabitation before Clovis. In my first book, The Secret Vaults of Time (1978) I discussed my sense of that model and its failures, proposing instead a model that Dennis Stanford, mentioned in this report, also supported. Little-by-little the Diffusionist scenario has proven to be correct, and we now know there was life long before Clovis, and that the discovery of America doesn't look at all like the simple Columbus story.

New archaeological evidence suggests that America was first discovered by Stone Age people from Europe – 10,000 years before the Siberian-originating ancestors of the American Indians set foot in the New World.

A remarkable series of several dozen European-style stone tools, dating back between 19,000 and 26,000 years, have been discovered at six locations along the US east coast. Three of the sites are on the Delmarva Peninsular in Maryland, discovered by archaeologist Dr Darrin Lowery of the University of Delaware. One is in Pennsylvania and another in Virginia. A sixth was discovered by scallop-dredging fishermen on the seabed 60 miles from the Virginian coast on what, in prehistoric times, would have been dry land.

The new discoveries are among the most important archaeological breakthroughs for several decades – and are set to add substantially to our understanding of humanity’s spread around the globe.

The similarity between other later east coast US and European Stone Age stone tool technologies has been noted before. But all the US European-style tools, unearthed before the discovery or dating of the recently found or dated US east coast sites, were from around 15,000 years ago – long after Stone Age Europeans (the Solutrean cultures of France and […]

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