"Celts" and "Picts" from Iberia

[Phil]

I was watching an interesting programme the other week about a theory that some early immigrants to America came from the south of France during the last Ice Age. They were called Solutreans and seemingly made identical flint artefacts to those found in America. Very interesting and if they made it all that way it is hardly surprising others from the same general area made it to Britain.

[gilmore]

I was watching an interesting programme the other week about a theory that some early immigrants to America came from the south of France during the last Ice Age. They were called Solutreans and seemingly made identical flint artefacts to those found in America. Very interesting and if they made it all that way it is hardly surprising others from the same general area made it to Britain.

That theory is controversial. As I recall there is nothing to support it other than the similarity of flint tools, and a small sampling of DNA among Native Americans/First Nations in Canada that may well have come later.

Prehistoric and genetic ancestry is, I am afraid, full of enthusiastic amateurs who read a lot into a little, even less reliable than the false attribution of septs to clans.