I find it a little interesting that I've seen the Solutrian hypothesis criticized as racist and colonialist. Mostly because the migrants would have been Old Europeans. I mean, maybe there are racist subtext to the way it's discussed, but I've never seen something like "primitive Siberians never could have made the trip, it must have been enterprising White Europeans" or anything that smelled of such a sentiment.

No doubt racism in history (and historiography) is a big deal, but in the pre-bronze-age world, the only racist, imperialistic thing I think we can do is pretend that "Europeans" of that time were somehow anything like today's White People. What am I even saying this is so weird.

Post-colonial deconstruction in social sciences is mad important, in any case.