Interesting read.....
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Obviously India first discovered America. How else do you theorize that Indians were the first Americans?
Yes, I agree. It’s the same with the North and South Poles which were discovered by Polish explorers in search of the equator.
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Who sez it had to be discovered?
The Garden of Eden has been right here all along.
I thought it was agreed that Vikings had found it after finding Greenland?
Pre-Clovis
Interesting! The big controversy in American prehistory is... were the Americas populated prior to 11,500 years ago?
The conventional wisdom is the humans first came across the Siberian land bridge no earlier than 11,500 years ago and established the Clovis Culture. There are several archeological sites that appear to predate this, but the evidence is controversial.
> I thought it was agreed that Vikings had found it after finding Greenland?
That is only one of the theories explored by the TV series America Unearthed. The theories about ancient explorations are nothing new. In the 1940s and 1950s Thor Heyerdahl demonstrated that civilizations may have been able to travel the world long before European navigators made their voyages of discovery.
Then there are scientific discoveries "Tobacco And Cocaine In Ancient Egypt" and "Archaelogical Enigmas from Ancient Egypt" that some believe indicates trade between Egypt and South America centuries ago.
This is a bit like us trying to teach ancient Egyptian, Greek or Roman survey procedures to computer literate college surveying students. It can be done. However, much of the detail has been lost long ago.
VIkings
> I thought it was agreed that Vikings had found it after finding Greenland?
Yes, the Vikings most likely were in the Americas around 1000 AD. I believe only single artifact (that could be dated) was found at Lance Aux Meadows, Newfoundland, proving that it was a Viking site.
While certainly the Vikings visits to North America were great achievements, Columbus sailed straight across the fat part of the Atlantic on what could have been a 1 way trip. The Vikings could island hop to Faeroe Islands, Iceland, Greenland and then across the Davis Strait to Labrador. These smaller hops left then out of sight of land for onlay a few days at a time.
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Heavener runestone
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Fairly recently some other sites have been found that indicate even earlier occupation and longstanding trade with other north american natives. I think these were much closer to Greenland though.
Amerigo Vespucci discovered it because it wasn't America before that.
He must've been a real estate developer because he managed to stamp his name on two continents.
Here's a question that a speaker posed to a room full of developers a decade or more ago in Texas:
Why do you developers name your development after what you've just destroyed?
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