What was the Ice Age climate like in southern France/Spain?
During the last glacial maximum around 20,000 years ago the climate was a lot colder and drier than now. In southern France one could expect summer temperatures of between 5-10°C and winter temperatures dropping below -20°C. Even so, there were three basic land types that had their own advantages and disadvantages for people: • Wide coastal plain that was probably an open grass land with sparse vegetation • Uplands that would have been much like the Arctic tundra today • Inland valleys that were well sheltered and supported milder and more protected climates What evidence is there that the Solutreans were a sea faring race? It is not really correct to think of the Solutreans as a sea faring people, any more than we think of the modern Inuit of the Arctic as sea faring. A more proper term is maritime. This means that people were focused on marine resources and had the knowledge and ability to make their living on the margins of these, as well as inland. We have good evidence that Solutr
