Solutreans-style spear points made by Bruce Bradley.




Hello again, and welcome to another edition of American Dissident Voices, the Internet radio program of the National Alliance. I'm your host and Chairman of the Alliance, Erich Gliebe.

For many, many years, we have been told that the American Indians inhabited North America before anyone else arrived on the continent. These peoples are currently referred to as "Native Americans," despite the long known fact that they are genetically a Mongolic people. They were thought to have first arrived on these shores crossing the land bridge from Asia to Alaska around 11,000 years ago.

In today's age of Political Correctness, American Indians are portrayed as being tranquil, New Age, environmentally conscious sages, who were unfortunate victims of the hateful White settlers and pioneers from Europe. And while Whites are being denigrated for "oppressing every other race on the planet," the Indians are nearly held up to sainthood (well, not quite as high as the Jews), and in fact it has become fashionable for non-Indians to claim to be Indian, when in fact they are not.

It's not uncommon today to run into a blonde-haired, blue-eyed person who will try to tell you straight-to-your-face they are nearly full-blooded Indian. Wild Indians aside, however, the truth about who really were the first Americans has finally been coming out in the last couple of decades. Let me explain.

Ice Age North America was vast and uninhabited; a frozen land dominated by beasts. Who first set foot on this continent was the greatest mystery in modern archeology. Today, however, new discoveries of Ice Age artifacts are rewriting history. A Clovis spear point, 17,000 years old, the oldest man-made object ever found in North America, was discovered in Virginia in 1996, and scientists believe whoever made it discovered the continent.

During the worst weather conditions our race ever encountered, America's first settlers set out on an epic journey, struggled across phenomenal distances, faced incredible dangers, and against all odds, discovered the New World. But the biggest revelation of all is where these first Americans came from.

17,000 years ago, the earth was caught up in the last great Ice Age. In southern France, food was scarce, and the people were fighting to survive. Modern humans evolved 100,000 years ago and the Ice Age presented the worst climate conditions man has ever known. Throughout the history of the earth, thousands of Ice Ages have frozen the planet, with the most recent being at its peak 17,000 years ago.

Permanent glacial ice spread from the poles, engulfing a third of the land mass. Across the northern hemisphere, the continents were overwhelmed by ice a mile thick. In France, giant glaciers came down from the mountains. Thousands of humans who had lived there for tens of thousands of years were being roped in by the shrinking land mass. Many of them had taken refuge from the ice along the Atlantic Coastline, surviving by eking out a living from the ocean. Working together in clans was their only chance of survival.

Today, 17,000 years later, only a few artifacts remain from these people. Archeologists call these people Solutreans. The Solutreans created objects that are still in use today, like the eyed needle. They carved and painted images of the animals they hunted, like the wooly mammoth. But due to their Aryan creative genius, they revolutionized weapons technology. For nearly 100,000 years, mankind only made spear points from simple flakes of stone. But the Solutreans took a quantum leap forward. Using new, groundbreaking techniques, they produced spear points that were 50% thinner and 50% lighter, with edges sharper than steel razor.

Archeologist Bruce Bradley has spent 20 years teaching himself how to craft weapons like the Solutreans. "The flaking is so complex, you can't just think your way through it. You've got to feel your way through it." Bruce has discovered that no other Stone Age culture was capable of making tools this way. "This technique, this way of doing things is the most complex technological method that we know of in the Ice Age." Bruce's unique knowledge of this technique would eventually unlock a mystery.

As I mentioned earlier, archeologists made a baffling discovery in Virginia in 1996. A spear point was unearthed, and when Bruce Bradley examined it, he was perplexed. It was identical to those discovered in France, which were crafted by the Solutreans.

Carbon dating showed that the spear point was buried 17,000 years ago, when archeologists previously believed North America was uninhabited. To archeologists, the discovery was a revelation that indicated the impossible. According to Bruce Bradley, "The idea that people may have populated the New World from Europe is so dramatically different from anything that I have ever been taught, that it almost has that 'unbelievable' concept."

For over a century, scientists had believed that North America wasn't discovered until 11,000 years ago, when people from Asia crossed the land bridge from Asia to Alaska. But what Bradley had seen challenged that theory. "It was one of those sort of, 'it just can't be'. But how can it not be, because it's right there in front of us? Had Europeans brought their technology to America 6,000 years before anyone else? And if they had, the even tougher question was, 'How?'" To reach North America, the Solutreans would have had to cross the ultimate natural barrier -- the Atlantic Ocean. Possessing only Stone Age technology, was this even possible?

17,000 years ago in caves across France and Spain, Ice Age clans left the most remarkable records of their culture -- their artwork. It is a unique look into their world. They painted pictures of the prey they depended on to survive. The images detail how the icy conditions were affecting their lives. In Spain's Altamira Cave, Bruce Bradley is literally retracing the footsteps of the ancients. Some of the chambers in the cave could swallow a football stadium. "It's just unbelievable. It almost leaves me speechless," Bradley says. But the Ice Age people explored and inhabited this cave with nothing more than a candle.

As the ice engulfed the earth, the cave drawings tell us that the Solutreans looked to the Atlantic Ocean for their food -- primarily seals -- whose hides, meat, and fat was essential to their survival in Ice Age conditions. Professor Richard Peltier of the University of Toronto has fed every piece of Ice Age data into a vast supercomputer. After months of entering the data, it showed that at the onset of winter, the entire European coast froze, with ice reaching as far as the Mediterranean. But an even more dramatic finding was that this ice extended as a 30-foot sheet across the Atlantic Ocean, and all the way to North America. Europe and North America were connected by almost 4,000 miles of ice, an ice bridge.

The voyage to the new World must have been a brutal one, even for those tough people. Every step they took could've been their last. Hidden cracks in the ice could spell death. Hunting seals provided the Solutreans with nearly everything they needed. The rich, dense fat provided fuel for their fires, the skin of the seal was sewn into warm clothes, and the bones were made into tools.

Dr. Richard Peltier says that because of the vast temperature differences between the warm gulfstream and the frozen poles, they were traveling across a very hostile environment. The wind speeds were higher, and the temperatures much lower. As the weather warmed, broken ice flows twisted in a giant whirlpool, and the Solutreans were at the mercy of the currents. The hunters had no way of knowing where they were going, or if they'd survive long enough to get there. After months of surviving in the open Atlantic, the Solutreans finally arrived in the New World.

In the Ice Age, a great wall of ice -- a mile thick -- covered much of North America. At the foot of the ice were great open grasslands. And grazing on the grasslands were animals new to Europeans, and in greater numbers than could be imagined. And although mammoths were dying in Europe, they were thriving in America. Wooly mammoths standing eleven feet tall, weighing eight tons, and with twelve-foot tusks, saber-toothed tigers, and short-faced bears standing ten-feet tall and capable of speeds over 35 mph.

For years archeologists have wondered about the mysterious burials for spear points found in North America and Europe. They contained oversized spear points over a foot long and too thin for killing. The discovery of the spear point in Virginia is proof that Europeans reached America long before the Indians. But did they venture deeper into America? Or did they die out?

Every human gene is a history book containing markers dating back to the origin of our species. While looking at DNA samples from the Ojibwa First Nation tribe of Central Ontario, molecular anthropologist Dr. Mike Brown of Mercer University in Atlanta uncovered something shocking. Mike was expecting proof that all Indians came from Asia. Instead, he found a totally unexpected DNA marker. Dr. Brown says, "Surprise number one is that it comprises a full quarter of some Native American populations, which is a lot. Surprise number two, this lineage was not only found in Native Americans, but also in Europeans."

It's obvious that the story of the European hunters did not end in Virginia, they survived and somehow mixed with the Indians, who 6,000 years later crossed the land bridge from Asia to Alaska.

Famed historian Arthur Kemp claims that there is some genetic evidence showing that it appears that among the first Americans, the White males were killed by the Indians, while the White females were carried off as slaves. Now isn't that a bombshell to counter what we've al been previously taught?

Cavemen from Europe discovered North America. But that leaves the door open for a lot of questions. Shouldn't White people now be recognized as the true "Native Americans"? Will Whites now be given large pieces of North American real estate and be able to have their own tribal laws? Can White Americans now be entitled to gambling casinos and lower taxes on gasoline because we were the first ones here?

Al this opens up a huge debate, one that we cannot lay to rest. The discoveries I discussed today will be a topic of discussion for some time to come.

I'm Erich Gliebe, and thanks for being with me again today.