europeans the first americans?

All the discoveries of "Caucasian skeletons" in the Americas found so far have been shown to be false, although it hasn't stopped some fringe types from continuing the claim.

There has been a very long history of attempts to deny that the inhabitants of the Western Hemisphere could have produced the advanced civilizations they did by ascribing these things to the influence of European or Middle Eastern cultures. Lost tribes of Israel, Egyptians, Phoenicians, Celts, etc - anyone but Siberian migrants / native Americans. A local origin for these civilizations just isn't sexy enough for some, it seems.

The Solutrians are probably the most empirical of these claims. It's based on a style of flaked stone points that, in Eurasia, was unique to the Solutrian culture of western Europe (France) but shows similarity to Clovis stone points in the Americas. This is pretty thin evidence for any sort of contact, though. Isolated groups came up with similar techniques all the time. Ground edges on stone tools, for instance, were first developed by Australian aboriginals who were relatively isolated at the time - but it subsequently appears in scattered locations around the world, including, for instance, the Natufian culture of the Neolithic Levant (Israel/Palestine). I doubt it was colonized by Australian aboriginals!

The timeline for the Solutrian theory doesn't really work out all that well, either. The Solutrian culture in Europe existed from 21000 to 17000 years BP. It had disappeared entirely by 15000 years BP. The Clovis tools - the stone points in the Americas that resemble Solutrian points - hadn't started to be manufactured until about 13000 years BP, two thousand years after the Solutrians had disappeared and fully four thousand years since it had been the dominant style of stone flaking in the areas where it is found. Unless they spent a few thousand years in crossing over (maybe they froze on the way and thawed out on the other side!), it doesn't make much sense.

im afraid you misunderstand my motivations in posting this subject. i have no desire to rob the native americans of their heritage, perhaps my title post is misleading. im sure the native americans landed in alaska first. All im saying is its possbile that other peoples may have come from other directions and this would be interesting if it was the case. anyway human history belongs to us all native american history belongs to me just as european history belongs to you. we are all human and have the right and duty to discover what our ancestors did with there lives. please stop looking at this as a rascist attack. instead it is a professional historical line of investigation. perhaps then we can make progress togethere