I would like to thank Mr. Dale for his apology (letter, April 18) which I accept, but there is always a but.
Mr. Dale speaks of the Solutrean theory as being debunked when in fact it is alive and well.
Since the discovery of a Solutrean stone point in Chesapeake Bay, many of the Clovis first believers have begun to question that theory admitting that it would have been possible for those peoples to travel from Europe's most westerly point to North-Americas most easterly point, a distance of 1,200 miles or less at that time.
Travelling by some type of watercraft, (the predominant thought is waterproof animal skin boats such as those used in the Arctic) skirting the massive ice flow of the last glaciation period.
More evidence of the peopling of the Americas came from a find in Texas where two stone points were uncovered amongst the debris left from knapping stone-age points.
These points at present predate all other finds of human habitation in the Americas.
They are thought to be of a previous unknown people.
This find throws more doubt on the "we were here first" concept by native peoples.
As to your comments that North American natives were preceded by White Europeans and that the hypotheses of this possibility of Solutrean peoples preceding aboriginal people are made by white supremacist groups, apparently you see these early Europeans in the same manner as white supremacists goosestepping Aryans marching in perfect formation along the ice shelf intent on invading the Americas.
At that period of time, there were no "white men." They simply did not exist then.
There was no difference in colouration between the early Europeans and the early Asians who migrated by accident into Americas just as any other peoples that by accident in their continuous flight to survive, arrived in the Americas.
As I previously stated, at this present time no one knows definitively who arrived first.
It is not for politicians and stories told to determine who was here first.
This must and will be determined eventually by science, with archaeologists on their knees digging in the dirt.
Larry Barnes
Prince George
