Across Atlantic Ice: Clovis Origins  I want to talk about the
book Across Atlantic Ice: The Origin of America’s Clovis
Culture. It was written by Dennis Stanford and Bruce Bradley,
both highly respected archaeologists. The point they make in the
book is very simple: An important archaeological culture known
as the “Clovis” is actually a European culture that traveled
east to west from Europe to North America, arriving first along
the New England coast and then fairly quickly spreading across
the US to the Rockies, and subsequently kinda petering out
though there are bits and pieces of Clovis looking stuff farther
west.  From the book’s publisher:  Who were the first humans to
inhabit North America? According to the now familiar story,
mammal hunters entered the continent some 12,000 years ago via a
land bridge that spanned the Bering Sea. The presence of these
early New World people was established by distinctive stone
tools belonging to the Clovis culture. But are the Clovis tools
Asian in origin?  Drawing f