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Unknown European
12-11-2020, 12:15 AM
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solutrean_hypothesis
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solutrean_hypothesis#References

Smeagol
12-11-2020, 12:23 AM
No.

Parça do Neymar
12-11-2020, 12:26 AM
It's all based on similarities between lithic technologies from North American and European cultures, sometimes on superficial physical similarities between Paleo-Indians and West Eurasians, but there's no genetic evidence supporting a direct migration from Europe (via the Atlantic).

Luso
12-11-2020, 12:31 AM
Probably not, because:

"In 2014, the autosomal DNA of a 12,500+-year-old infant from Montana was sequenced.[19] The DNA was taken from a skeleton referred to as Anzick-1, found in close association with several Clovis artifacts. Comparisons showed strong affinities with DNA from Siberian sites, and the report stated that "In agreement with previous archaeological and genetic studies our genome analysis refutes the possibility that Clovis originated via a European (Solutrean) migration to the Americas." The DNA also showed strong affinities with all existing Native American populations, which indicated that all of them derive from an ancient population that lived in or near Siberia, the Upper Palaeolithic Mal'ta population.[20] Anzick-1 Y-haplogroup is Q."

Then in 2015...

"Re-evaluation of the DNA evidence states that "X2a has not been found anywhere in Eurasia, and phylogeography gives us no compelling reason to think it is more likely to come from Europe than from Siberia. Furthermore, analysis of the complete genome of Kennewick Man, who belongs to the most basal lineage of X2a yet identified, gives no indication of recent European ancestry and moves the location of the deepest branch of X2a to the West Coast, consistent with X2a belonging to the same ancestral population as the other founder mitochondrial haplogroups. Nor have any high-resolution studies of genome-wide data from Native American populations yielded any evidence of Pleistocene European ancestry or trans-Atlantic gene flow."

PaleoEuropean
12-11-2020, 12:39 AM
Some anecdotal evidence
These mummies have shown to have European or Caucasian DNA
https://www.histecho.com/ancient-mummies-from-floridas-windover-bog-among-greatest-archeological-discoveries-in-the-u-s/

and some of these skulls have H2a MTDNA which is associated with middle easterners, slavs and various indo-aryan groups.

https://www.ancient-origins.net/news-history-archaeology/elongated-skulls-0014172