I would wear a fur lined parka while visiting
the Arctic in the winter time. I would wear Bermuda shorts when visiting
the West Indies. Then again at home I wear jeans. Were I to die in any of these
three places in such a way that my body was well preserved, future Archeologists
might well assume I was a native Northerner or a Tropical Islander.
They would correctly diferentiate between Northern culture and Island culture;
but would they recognize that I had been a temporary member of both? Perhaps
the Clovis people who came to the Americas had cultural ties to the Solutrean
people of Southern France, and to all the other peoples in between who used
different lithic technologies.
One thing is clear, on both sides of the land
bridge, the megafauna began to disapear after the arrival of these stone age
hunters.