The Solutreans, The First Americans
About four years ago I began writing a history book. Books take me a long time to write, because I will write like crazy for a while, then stop to think about what I wrote and what I will write next. Sometimes a year or two will pass before I get back to it (this isn’t due to procrastination, but due to having too many other projects going on, and this is now further complicated by the extreme physically tiring work I now do for a profession. I once wrote a novel that ended up taking me about six or eight years (I can’t remember, but how long it took to write is written in the preface). In this history book I had to stop to do more research. Since the time I began writing it an entire new batch of discoveries have been made that will cause me to rewrite the entire first chapter. I may just make the information from these new findings become the new “chapter one.”
So, what is
this history book? To answer that I will
have to go back to a series of almost frustrating conversations I had with my
dad. He and I both have a very high
affection for history. We both have a
pretty good understanding of the very early history of Europe, North Africa,
the Mid-east, and the Near East. Being Native
American (on my mother’s side), I also have an interest in Native history. In trying to discuss these matters with my
dad he kept saying erroneous things based on a lack of understanding. He kept getting nations and nation groups
mixed up. He would say that such and
such nation was related to another that actually has no relationship at
all. Why is knowing this important? Knowing who a people is related to helps you
understand the dynamics between them. At
least he didn’t express the common sentiment of, “well aren’t they all just
injuns?” In order to help clear this up
I decided at first to make a map; showing all the native nations and where
their homelands were. I would color code
it according to which nation group they belong.
This quickly evolved into an atlas of the pre-Columbian history
of North America. Each plate or map has
an accompanying text. Some inferences
have to be made based upon available physical evidence. Building styles, clothing styles, and other
customs also help point to a nation’s origins and time of origin.
In the first chapter I went through the main nation groups
that were present around 2000 BC. Since
I first started writing this I know of some very important discoveries that push
me back to about 2500 BC. Besides this,
my first plate has to go back to 17,000 BP.
(What’s BP? It means “before
present.” So many people in academia
today hate the concept of God so much that they refuse to use the old “BC”
dating system. Maybe they’re afraid they’ll
burst into flames for even uttering the initials for Christ. The flaw with a dating system like this is that
besides massive confusion, the “P” [ present ] keeps changing – duh! For instance in some sources that I read the dates
of the Roman Empire even get confusing. Even
the super-novice knows that the Roman Empire was from about 50 BC to about 400
AD. Now they read as from about 2000 BP
to 1600BP).
Anyway, 17,000 BP/15,000 BC is the new date for the arrival
of the first Americans. This was during
the last period of glacial maximum. I,
like everyone else, drank the kool-aid of the accepted theories from the land
of academia and followed the Bering Strait hypothesis. All the Native Americans crossed over the
Beringia Land Bridge because everyone then was too stupid to have invented
boats, right? WRONG! The Beringia theory is pushed, despite claims
from some nations’ written histories, such as the Ojibwe people who that
say they did not come from across the land bridge in the west, but that they
crossed the eastern sea (as found in the Birch Bark Scrolls in Ottawa). Academia always responded to this by simply
saying that the natives were wrong. They
(the lords of academia) said that by “eastern sea” they meant the St. Lawrence
River. To add punch to their theory,
someone did a series of DNA tests on a slice of native populations with test
subjects representing all the nations.
The findings? – all Native Americans have Asiatic DNA strains. Is that the end of the story? Not by a long shot. I won’t go into all the details, as you can
watch them in the video that I linked, but here’s the crux of it.
Clovis points
Clovis point spearheads are found in abundance on the east
coast and around the southern Great Lakes, and the Ohio River valley. There was another cluster of finds around the
Idaho-Montana border, and another cluster around West Texas. They are not found anywhere else in the world…
except in western France around the Gascone region. In France they are actually just very similar
– like a Clovis prototype. Recently these
same proto-clovis points were also found in Virginia and Maryland. I had known about this “French Connection”
for a while and the idea of them coming across from Beringia just bothered me. Are you seriously trying to tell me that a
group of people with proto-clovis points walked all across Europe and Asia,
crossed the entire continent of North America and did not drop or otherwise
lose a single spear head till they got to the coast of Virginia?!!!
Not only is that ludicrous, but the time frame is all
wrong. A massive ice sheet blocked the
way into North America from Beringia.
This didn’t recede enough to pass through till about 11,000 to 12,000 BP
(9000 to 10,000 BC). At the same time
the people of western France were hemmed in by the main ice sheet in the north
(it covered everything from Brittany and northward), the Alps and Savoy to the
east, and the Pyrenees to the south. Glaciers
confined them to a small triangle of land bordering the sea. They couldn’t have even gotten out to make
the long, ludicrous walk of not dropping proto-clovis points.
The ice extent during the last Glacial Maximum
A third point is
YES, they did build boats. They weren’t
too stupid or un-evolved to figure out travel by water. Pictures of what appear to be hide skinned
boats (like an Irish Curragh) have been found on cave walls in the Gascone
region of France along with pictures depicting seal hunting. During this last period of glacial maximum,
they would have had to travel out several hundred miles across the Atlantic along
the ice sheet to find seals. That was
the closest place to find the plankton, which the sardines feed on, and in turn
feed the seals.
Types of Curraghs
The final clinker though was our hero – mitochondrial DNA. DNA from the Solutreans (the name given to
these early dwellers of western France) has been found in every population of
Native Americans at no less than 10% of the test subjects, and in 25% of the
Ojibwe and other Annishinaabe.
So what’s the story?
These ancient (non-Indo-European) denizens of France came over here (and
maybe after a while went back and forth) and lived here all by their lonesomes for
about 5,000 years. After the passage opened
up through the ice sheet they were joined by the Asians (specifically the
Siberians, and probably also people from the Jomon culture). Rather than ruin the neighborhood, they
proved a good addition, and the two peoples mingled together. In other words, every Native American is
descended from people who crossed the Bering Strait, and every Native American
is descended from people who didn’t cross the Bering Strait, but rather came
from France.
The video linked here is a documentary about this
subject. It has great, well researched
information. The reenactment narratives
are good too and they used some recognizable Canadian actors and
actresses.
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