You're all wrong, it was some guy!
You're all wrong, it was some guy!
I would love to be happy, but unfortunately I'm too busy being awesome and kicking your ass at everything
There are historical murmours that caucasians were there before the native americans. Bones dug up date back further than any 'polynesian' bones but has been hushed up. Who truely knows? Leaf landed on it, thought nothing of it & sailed off again. Silly Vikings.
They want us to Believe Columbus did but it was porbably the first human being to set foot there who has the rights to it's discovery.
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depends on what you mean by well-documented.Originally Posted by Big D
http://www.castletown.com/brendan.htm
Never underestimate the Irish. I've heard of this too but it is too vague to be cemented in history.
does it really matter? its still here, so thats all we need to worry about
No, but as long as there are people who are bored with no life (ie, myself) things like this will be discussed to some degree.
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It's interesting to note that some archaelogists believe the first Europeans in North America where not in fact Vikings, but were stone-age peoples who migrated from what is now France (although they were not celtic, frankish, etc), during the Ice Age. The theory is based on the similarity between certain artifacts in both locations, specifically the variety of spear heads known as 'Clovis' spear heads, as well as some genetic evdience.
The genetic evidence is a discovery that certain parts of the DNA from some native North Americans has unusual similarities with European DNA. The actual frequency of this occurence depends on tribe an occurance, but one tribe's DNA which was used frequently showed almost 1/4 people having the afformentioned DNA patterns.
... Quantities of evidence unearthed recently suggest it was a Chinaman who discovered the Americas, at least a century before Columbus recorded discovery.
In the year 1421, the Ming Emperor, Zhu Di, sent out the largest expeditionary fleet the world had ever seen led by his most trusted Admiral, Zheng He, a massive undertaking which would cover thousands of miles and take three years to complete. Among the nations discovered and apparently colonized by the Chinese, including Australia, New Zealand, the Pacific Islands and South America, one of the more ambitious admirals successfully landed on the West coast of North America.
Well... there definitely wasn't any Chinese presence in New Zealand until the 1800s... The first Polynesian settlers got here roughly 1100 years ago; there's some faint evidence of earlier inhabitation, but nothing suggests that China ever colonised.
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I'm not a were-bear.
Sorry to ruin what all you giggling, pre-pubescent juveniles on this forum call " fun " but cut out the crap. NOW.
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The first population to tread on the Americas was indeed those who crossed on the land bridge....however it wasn't just a few thousand years ago. It is generally accepted that the land bridge formed from the ice age existed from around 40,000 BC to around 10,000 BC. And while it was probably possible for travellers to migrate across the bridge 40,000 years ago, carbon dating and fossil records indicate that settlement of the Americas was not until after 20,000 BC. Then of course came the Vikings, famed Erick the Red, as well as Leif Erickson (Sense a relation?) set up fishing villages around the area of New Foundland, also 'discovering' Iceland and Greenland (And naming the icy one Greenland and the greener one Iceland in attempts to keep the good island for themselves.)
And finally, Columbus, who as my old history professor summed up, was the "Last person to discover America" Even though when he died he still didn't realize it. What a pitiful lad.
As far as we can tell, before 40,000 BC, the Americas were inhabited by dragons and whales which walked on land.
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