Abstract
The claim for purported similarities in the artifact assemblages of Solutrean Paleolithic foragers (23,500–20,000 cal bp) and Clovis Paleoindians (13,300–12,800 cal bp) has resulted in the resurgence of a hypothesis which suggests the two are ancestrally related. While there is currently no evidence to support this hypothesis, the question remains as to whether Solutrean foragers were capable of traversing the Atlantic during the height of the Last Glacial Maximum (LGM) in order to reach North America. Proponents of the Solutrean hypothesis assume that there would have been a viable sea ice route in place, and that the Solutrean would have possessed the behavioral and technological adaptations necessary to survive the journey. The research presented here makes the same assumptions in order to quantitatively model and to systematically assess via computer simulation a late Pleistocene transatlantic migration. The integration of paleoclimatic, paleobiological, and ethnographic factors into a model based on ...
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