In this video, we review the Solutrean Hypothesis in light of recent underwater discoveries. In the Chesapeake Bay of Virginia, a small scallop trawler was dredging the seafloor in 1974, about 230 feet below the water's surface and about 60 miles offshore. When they lifted their net, they discovered a partial mastodon skull that had started to go extinct about 12,000 years earlier. The fishermen also noticed a flaked blade, which they later discovered was made of rhyolite, a rare volcanic rock.

The mastodon tusk was found to be more than 22,000 years old by marine archaeologists who measured the fraction of radioactive carbon isotopes. Although it was impossible to pinpoint the blade's exact age, the flint-knapping method it used was comparable to that of Solutrean tools, which were made in Europe between 22,000 and 17,000 years ago. The new hypothesis might now be known as the "Creswellian Hypothesis" in light of the new information.

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