As far as the docudrama, the accompanying story is irritating, poorly executed, and overdone, complete with an Ice Age Amazon. The science is fine, but not detailed enough. I suppose this was done so politically correct because the producers were treading on sacred ground. Because, if the Solutrians did settle North America first, they were served the same fate by Native Americans that was suffered by the Norse, extermination.

The main problem with the "reenactment" is it depicts a cultural transformation that took place over generations occurring in a year or so. The people that discovered America first, whether from Asia or Europe, or both, certainly did so looking a lot more like Inuit or Eskimo people than our ossified idea of a stone age European. The interactions between the people are brutally medieval, even post-Apocalyptic and don't fit actual behaviors of people known to live at this technology level. The "big man" clan structure is ham-fistedly over done—something like representing the doings of parliament as nothing but the whims of a military dictator. The small scale modern style-expedition depicted is ridiculous, with a small migration being much more likely.

Correction, the most ridiculous aspect of the story was these five guys taking their only vagina out to kill mammoth, closely followed by sending the bald dude out into the night to collect more firewood.

Fast forward to the scientists. 25 minutes in the climate model tells a story of Europe as a frozen hell, with half the North Atlantic under 30 feet of ice. The fact that ice flows acted like coral reefs is simply astounding. One thing that we should consider, is that such an Ice Age will happen again, and again, and again.

It seems fairly certain that both the east and west coasts of North America were reached by coastal navigating ice hunters in skin boats. Much of the Siberian toolkit was antler and does not hold up as well, so their are huge gaps in finds. We do know that one of the first Californians was killed by another.

Without looking at any other factor, even the Younger Dryuss Event, once the ice receded, the population influx from Asia would increase and that from Europe cease, dooming prehistoric Americans of European descent. A look at Native American language distribution tells a tale of many invasions and migrations as age upon age pumped new Asian immigrants into America, which, based on the speed at which they were known to be in South America, was mostly accomplished in canoes, kayaks, or some other form of lightly constructed boat.

120 minutes in is the genetic evidence.

In closing, the idea that Stone Age Americans of Asian and European descent met, and then had a free love picnic, is absurd.

Do yourself a favor and hit the second link below, to get your science. This is an excellent lecture by one of the men behind the fascinating subject of Stone Age Europeans doing what Stone Age Polynesians did, migrate across an ocean.

I used this theory as the basis for the Tine Travel Novel Out of Time, available through the link below.