Chinese Discover America 80 Years Before Columbus?

Originally posted by masqua

It should also be noted that North America was discovered by native North Americans 10,000 years before the Vikings.

However, a 10,000 year old genetic connection is no proof of land ownership.

25,000-50,000

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Once again, that's not the point...they walked here. We're trying to find who got here by BOAT first. This thread is about China's map, and the fasct that they were here before colombus....and that started a snowball effect of posts about who was here before them (by BOAT).

Originally posted by marg6043
Actually Colombus didn't got credit for it either, Americo Vespucci did Colombus die destitude and obscure.
Later he was granted the discovery of the New World after death.
Sad story.
I agree that many came to these shores before the Spanish did.

Actually, Amerigo Vespucci was the name of the man who made the map of the New World for Columbus. He signed his name at the bottom "Amerigo" and everyone thought that was the name of the New World, not the artist of the map. At least, that's what I learned in the 6th grade.

Also, Chinese oral history teaches that a small band of Chinese crossed the Bering Strait and traveled to North America.

-Forestlady

Originally posted by Arcane Demesne

www.cnn.com...

Once again, that's not the point...they walked here. We're trying to find who got here by BOAT first. This thread is about China's map, and the fasct that they were here before colombus....and that started a snowball effect of posts about who was here before them (by BOAT).

As the Algonkian peoples have always said, they came from the east, from Europe, in boats...

www.bbc.co.uk...


Would modern Eskimo ever consider a five thousand kilometre journey across the Atlantic?

The answer it seems is yes - they have undertaken similar journeys many times.. Most encouraging was the realisation that Inuit people today rely on traditional boat building techniques. 'Unbreakable' plastic breaks in the unceasing cold temperatures whereas boats of wood, sealskin and whale oil are resilient and easily maintained. The same materials would have been available to Solutrean boat builders. Even if the Stone Age Europeans could make those boats, would it survive an Atlantic crossing?

"DNA lineage predominantly found in Europe got to the Great Lakes, 14,000 to 15,000 years ago"
Douglas Wallace, Emory University

Stanford believes the boats' flimsiness is deceptive. With the Atlantic full of ice floes it would be quite possible for paddlers in open boats to travel along the edges, always having a safe place to haul out upon if the weather turned in.

All this evidence was still essentially circumstantial, making the Solutrean adventure possible not proven. Douglas Wallace's DNA history bore fruit once more. In the DNA profile of the Ichigua Native American tribe he identified a lineage that was clearly European in origin, too old to be due to genetic mixing since Columbus' discovery of the New World. Instead it dated to Solutrean times. Wallace's genetic timelines show the Ice Age prompted a number of migrations from Europe to America. It looks highly likely that the Solutreans were one.

The impact of this new prehistory on Native Americans could be grave. They usually consider themselves to be Asian in origin; and to have been subjugated by Europeans after 1492. If they too were partly Europeans, the dividing lines would be instantly blurred. Dr Joallyn Archambault of the American Indian Programme of the Smithsonian Institute offers a positive interpretation, however. Venturing across huge bodies of water, she says, is a clear demonstration of the courage and creativity of the Native Americans' ancestors. Bruce Bradley agrees. He feels his Solutrean Ice Age theory takes into consideration the abilities of people to embrace new places, adding, "To ignore this possibility ignores the humanity of people 20,000 years ago."
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The prehistory of the Americas is wonderfully incomplete, with lots of 'experts' tossing in their pet theories. One of the least accepted is the stories the indigenous people themselves put forth, although a few brave scholars actually did listen and wonder if the oral traditions might hold kernels of truth in them.
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I believe Zheng He discovered North America first before Columbus did by sea route.

Big deal.


Perhaps you should investiget the Vikings and or make a visit to beautifull Newfoundland Canada.


Never mind the rest.



Peace

[edit on 18-3-2006 by The_Voice]