The hosts discuss four hypotheses for the arrival of humans into the New World: Beringian Land Bridge, Coastal Highway, Solutrean, and Oceanic. They discuss the early Paleoindian site complexes such as Folsom and Clovis in which David (allegedly) reveals the existence of the Clovis Organized Crime Syndicate.
A large part of the episode centers around "pre-Clovis" sites and whether they would belong to the Coastal Highway or Solutrean hypotheses. According to Carlton, the Solutreans crossed the Atlantic to get that sweet, sweet Old Bay seasoning. #OldBayAllDay
We wrap up the show with a discussion about which hypotheses each host believes explains the archaeological record best.
Recommended Literature:
David J. Meltzer
2010 First Peoples in a New World: Colonizing Ice Age America
Dennis. J. Stanford, Bruce A. Bradley & Michael Collins
2013 Across Atlantic Ice: The Origin of America's Clovis Culture
Tom. D Dillehay
1997 Monte Verde: a Late Pleistocene settlement in Chile, Vol.2, The
Archaeological Context and Interpretation
Jon M. Erlandson et al.
2007 The Kelp Highway Hypothesis: Marine Ecology, the Coastal
Migration Theory, and the Peopling of the Americas
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