Trimble's Tavern Antiques
is very pleased to present
the Solutrean-like artifacts
of the
late Mark Small Collection
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The images and information presented here are a compilation of previously established evidence as well as new evidence
not yet fully studied by the wider scientific community. It is my desire to loan these artifacts for scientific
study to recognized institutions pursuing the studies of the Peopling of the Americas


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Found on the shores of Mathews County and from the bay's depths, these incredible artifacts are
all the more amazing when one realizes these six rare specimens are all from one collection!

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to discuss and/or schedule with me to see these exciting discoveries in-person

"Solutrean tool-making employed techniques not seen before and not rediscovered for millennia. The Solutrean has relatively finely worked, bifacial points made with lithic reduction percussion and pressure flaking rather than cruder flint knapping. Knapping was done using antler batons, hardwood batons and soft stone hammers. This method permitted the working of delicate slivers of flint to make light projectiles and even elaborate barbed and tanged arrowheads. Large thin spearheads; scrapers with edge not on the side but on the end; flint knives an saws, but all still chipped, not ground or polished; long spear-points, with tang and shoulder on one side only, are also characteristic implements of this industry. Bone and antler were used as well." "The Solutrean hypothesis builds on similarities between the Solutrean industry and the later Clovis culture / Clovis points of North America, and suggests that people with Solutrean tool-technology crossed the Ice Age Atlantic by moving along the pack ice edge, using survival skills similar to those of modern Eskimo people. The migrants arrived in northeastern North America and served as the donor culture for what eventually developed into Clovis tool-making technology. Archaeologists Dennis Stanford and Bruce Bradley suggest that the Clovis point derived from the points of the Solutrean culture of southern France (19,000 BP) through the Cactus Hill points of Virginia (16,000 BP) to the Clovis point. Stanford and Bradley also refer to other pre-Clovis finds in the Chesapeake Bay region of northeastern North America—such as the laurel-leaf Cinmar bifacial point—as possible links between Solutrean and Clovis lithic technology." Original courtesy of Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solutrean — Please support Wikipedia.

The series of projectile points being found or excavated from pre-Clovis levels along the bay's margins, and at other locations, effectively refutes the Clovis First 'hypothesis'... Regardless of their origins, these artifacts are among the very oldest artifacts to be found in the Americas The Cinmar blades' age is not in question, nor is the fact that it establishes a human occupation on the continent's LGM shoreline corresponding with the age of the Solutrean occupation of Europe. That Solutrean technologies are consistent in comparison with these artifacts' attributes adds intrigue--the real mystery isn't whether they are or are not Solutrean of origin--the question is: Was Solutrean technology passed on, OR was a substantial portion of it merely rediscovered of its own accord here, then lost, only to surface again with Clovis Cutting to the chase, a lot more explaining needs to be done to refute these facts; how they may be interpreted leans more in favor of an unknown compelling factor for a Solutrean presence here, yet still missing from our view, in this author's opinion.

Two Solutrean Blades recovered from the Chesapeake bay and shown at the Peopling of the Americas
conference in NM, 2012 by Dr Dennis Standford and Dr Bruce Bradley.
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The two large blades and four projectile points shown are described by Dr Stanford:

“Their existence appears consistent with other physical evidence found of very early
day man living in the Chesapeake Region and using Solutrean
technology to make tools to hunt and butcher mastodons.”



Note the large flake scars which were used to thin the form.
Many have been over-flaked by subsequent thinning and shaping,
and by the finishing retouch to sharpen and resharpen the blade

Outre' Pass flaking is a difficult technique to control, according to master Clovis and Solutrean-style knapper Dr Bruce Bradley.
The by-product flakes removed during the thinning process are vital to the completion of these peoples' tool assemblages.
Prismatic uniface blades and flakes were turned into a wide range of tools.





The fine examples of outre' pass flaking used to thin this bi-face knife are the hallmark of both Solutrean and Clovis flaking technologies.
It is important to note that the considerable technological similarities shared between Solutrean and Clovis are unique.









This knife was made from this once brightly banded material, a red/yellow flow Rhyolite. This material's quarry source is unconfirmed, tho it has been suggested that there is a source in the piedmont region of the border area between North and South Carolina.



Click each of the next six photos of the trianguloid indented-base Solutrean-like points for enlarged detail viewing
of the flaking and form of these rare artifacts--there might just be one in your collection, too!













This exceptional gem is identical in flaking and form to recognized Solutrean
bi-faces found in Europe. The importance of these finds is yet incompletely told--
The lack of DNA supporting a Solutrean immigration is defied by these artifacts
whose lithics technologies are in many ways virtually identical to Solutrean!





The famed Cinmar Blade
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Recovered from off the Atlantic coast along with remains of a Mammoth, apparently killed and butchered in an
ancient seaside marsh. The mammoth-ivory recovered was dated to 22,700 years before present, placing the seaside kill site within the same
chronological period that Solutrean peoples were occupying varied niches in Europe during the Last Glacial Maximum. In spite of doubts about
Solutrean technology immigrating to the new world, the Cinmar artifacts establish a human occupation of the North American LGM shoreline whose
peoples shared numerous technological attributes with Solutrean Europe.



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