The Solutreans: It Wasn't Murder!

I've been reading the book Gobekli Tepe: Genesis of the Gods by Andrew Collins.  In it, he analyses the 12,000 year old ruins and tries to explain why hunter-gatherers suddenly begin building complex and highly sophisticated stone circles at Gobekli Tepe.

The book is wide ranging and Collins talks about the Younger Dryas Boundary Event.  Its becoming more and more accepted in archaeology and geological science that something happened around 10,900BC to 10,300BC.  This "event", possibly a comet strike or multiple strikes from a broken up comet, really badly trashed the planet.  The impact event caused the extinction of the ice age megafauna: the wooly mammoths, dire wolves, giant flightless birds, sabre-toothed tigers, and many others.

Collins also mentions: 

"Also around the same time North America's Paleo-Indians, represented by the Clovis culture, abruptly disappear from the archaeological record."

This caused me to suddenly think about the Solutrean Hypothesis.  In a nutshell, it is a hypothesis that says that paleolithic Europeans, maybe as much as 18,000 years ago, had managed to cross from Europe to North America, settling there.  It is a hotly contested theory, being presented in a Discovery Channel documentary called Ice-Age Columbus and other books.   The theory has also been used to try and explain anomalous discoveries such as Kennewick Man.

However, unfortunately, the theory has been subverted and adopted by less savory types such as Neo-Nazis and white nationalists to try and justify their murderous and genocidal wishes.   The unsavory types also conclude, since there were no Caucasian type people in North America when the modern discovery of the continent occurred, that they must have been killed: a genocide carried out by the peoples we now know as Native Americans.  A particularly unsavory young man (now a lawyer practicing in the Midwest) wrote a nasty book outlining this theory, advocating getting revenge on Native Americans and Hispanics with terrible acts of violence. 

The "Clovis Culture", however, is supposed to have been the Solutreans.  The whole theory is posited on the similarity of the arrowheads and stone tools of the Clovis peoples with the Solutrean cultures of northren France and other areas in Europe.  

But for a moment, lets take it as read that the theory is real.  It is now known that Caucasian European types got into areas just west of China, the Tocharians, who's burials have been found in what is now Western China.  The language they spoke, Tocharian, is identified as an Indo-European language.  So, lets for a moment say that some Caucasians from Europe did somehow get over to North America several thousand years before the Younger Dryas Boundary Event.

And now lets take it for granted that the Younger Dryas Boundary Event did occur.  That there was some sort of comet or meteorite impact, or several of them, occurring at one time or over time (there is a possibility that debris kept impacting the planet for some time).  

If Andrew Collins' offhand observation that at this same time, the Clovis people vanished, then I think we can theorize what happened to the Solutreans.  They were not genocided.  They were not murdered by the Native Americans.  

The impacts of so many pieces of comet or meteor would have set off incredible fires, possibly a nuclear winter event.  There would have been widespread devistation, especially in areas hardest hit by the impacts.  And it seems that North America was especially badly effected by this Younger Dryas Boundary Event.  Almost all the megafauna of North America went extinct at this time, vanished without a trace.  Along with them, if they were there, would be the European derived Clovis people.

If the Solutreans in North America were real (which it seems could have been possible) and if some world-wide devastating event happened at the Younger-Dryas Boundary around 10,900 BCE did occur (which is seeming more and more likely), then the unsavory types are wrong.  It wasn't murder.  The Clovis Culture Solutreans were wiped out (probably close to the point of total extinction) by a terrible, horrible, cosmic accident. It effected the whole planet and caused untoward devastation.   

It wasn't murder.  There was no "white genocide."  It was a meteor storm where most of the meteors (or comet fragments or whatever) actually impacted all over the planet.  The Solutreans, caucasians of North America, like the mastadon and sabre tooth tiger, went extinct.