Reply #34: Part Two:

[H2O Man]

I find the DNA information fascinating. That seems perhaps more important than the possible relationship in artifact styles. I've always thought it important that fluted points do not seem common in Asia in the period that it is believed people were migrating across the Bering Strait. I'd be curious what points in Europe are being associated with clovis points in the New World.

Similarities alone in artifact styles, without the DNA, would not seem of value as evidence of relationship. I have a "leaf" shaped blade from the Adena phase that looks exactly like the Solutrean laurel leaf blades found by Roger Lewin and Bruce Bradley. Most occupation sites in the northeast have artifacts that resemble Oldowan and Acheulian tools. That would likely be because humans are humans.

I like to watch the type of show that you had mentioned. It's too early in the morning for me to remember anything clearly, but there was one on a while ago about some caucasian burials found I believe in Central Asia. There was a relationship to early domestication of horses, and some evidence of a Celtic fabric. I was watching it, when suddenly a friend from Hartwick College in Oneonta, who specializes in the domestication of horses, appeared on the screen.