Is this supposed to be humor? Can we have a second opinion as to whether this is actually humor or just a child attempting to gain the adults attention?
The first link is speculative and not exectly mainstream. Out of place artifacts are not unknown. Even if it is from the natives, 1 soldier does not an army make.
Since the Europeans arrived in North America relatively late in historical world events, it might be assumed that metallurgy did not take place earlier. However, Native Americans, in the area between what is now Washington and Alaska, made ceremonial knives and daggers known as "coppers". A copper workshop was found at the Cahokia Mounds State Historic Site (East St. Louis, Illinois) that has been dated to about A.D.1100. It is not certain who operated this workshop, but archaeologists have referred to the craftspeople as Mississippians. The 17th century Illinois tribe took European copper objects and transformed them into jewelry and other objects to better suit their own cultural ideas. Copper and brass were also prevalent in early 17th century Ontario, Canada.
Originally posted by maynardsthirdeye
I had this in another topic but it seemed out of place there so I put it here.
Did they come here? Read this and decide. I guess I kind of stole this poll from the website.
1. Roman coins have been found in Venezuela and Maine
2. Roman coins were found in Texas at the bottom of an Indian mound at ound Rock. The mound is dated at approximately 800 AD.
3. In 1957 by a small boy found a coin in a field near Phenix City, Alabama, from Syracuse, on the island of Sicily, and dating from 490 B.C.
4. In the town of Heavener, Oklahoma, another out-of-place coin was found in 1976. Experts identified it as a bronze tetradrachm originally struck in Antioch, Syria in 63 A.D. and bearing the profile of the emperor Nero.
5. In 1882, a farmer in Cass County, Illinois picked up bronze coin later identified as a coin of Antiochus IV, one of the kings of Syria who reigned from 175 B.C. to 164 B.C., and who is mentioned in the Bible.
6. In 1966, a man named Manfred Metcalf stumbled upon a stone in the state of Georgia that bears an inscription that is very similar to ancient writing from the island of Crete called "Cretan Linear A and B writing.
The list goes on and on.
paranormal.about.com...
Originally posted by Marduk
The first link is speculative and not exectly mainstream. Out of place artifacts are not unknown. Even if it is from the natives, 1 soldier does not an army make.
It is actually a fact that North American indians were not only smelting copper but also mining it at least a millenia before anyone landed at plymouth rock
Since the Europeans arrived in North America relatively late in historical world events, it might be assumed that metallurgy did not take place earlier. However, Native Americans, in the area between what is now Washington and Alaska, made ceremonial knives and daggers known as "coppers". A copper workshop was found at the Cahokia Mounds State Historic Site (East St. Louis, Illinois) that has been dated to about A.D.1100. It is not certain who operated this workshop, but archaeologists have referred to the craftspeople as Mississippians. The 17th century Illinois tribe took European copper objects and transformed them into jewelry and other objects to better suit their own cultural ideas. Copper and brass were also prevalent in early 17th century Ontario, Canada.
www.csa.com...
What's worth mentioning is that the Great Mesoamerican civilizations (Aztecs, Mayas, Incas, Olmecs, Toltecs) flourished around the Gulf bay
The Inca diet consisted primarily of fish, vegetables, nuts, and maize
Originally posted by Marduk
the Inca flourished along the coastline because they relied heavily on fishing
The Inca diet consisted primarily of fish, vegetables, nuts, and maize
it was about the only real protein they had
en.wikipedia.org...
but your claim they were trading with the other two groups is interesting
tell me
which of the three cultures had time travel technology ?
Originally posted by Byrd
Not really. Storms don't last long enough to blow someone across the Atlantic, and if they got lost out of sight of land their almost certain fate was to die in the middle of the ocean. It takes months to cross the Atlantic (check the logs of Columbus and other sailors before the age of steam) and they would lack food and water and shelter.
And the ships weren't made to float for months.
I don't know if you read any books on sailing ships, but if you did, you will surely remember just how dangerous crossings were even in a good sized 3-master and how often they needed repair during the voyage.
In the 19th century, a Japanese junk lost its mast and rudder in a typhoon on its way to Edo, was carried by sea currents across the Northern Pacific, and reached the coast of Washington State 14 months later. One of the survivors, Otokichi, became a famous interpreter.
In 1947, Norwegian writer Thor Heyerdahl sailed for over 6,900 km across the Pacific, from Callao in Peru to the Raroia atoll in Tuamotu Islands, on the Kon-Tiki, a balsawood raft built after ancient Peruvian designs. In 1969, Heyerdahl turned to the Atlantic, and sailed 6,400 km from Safi in Morocco to Barbados in the Ra II, a reed boat of ancient Egyptian design. The Frenchman Alain Bombard had already done a similar trip in 1952, starting from the Canaries. Bombard sailed in a modern inflatable boat, but alone and without taking any food or water reserves.
In 1977, Irish writer Tim Severin sailed from Brandon Creek on Ireland's Dingle Peninsula to Newfoundland in a currach made with 6th century Irish designs and materials — namely, oxhides stretched over a wooden frame. (See the section on Saint Brendan below).
