@Shelly^^^^ The vikings discovered North America long before the "natives" migrated here
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Then who were the people the Vikings met in North America?
Also, if I remember correctly, the Vikings were in America about the year 1000, Columbus arrived in 1492. So the people we now know as Indians, Native Americans, American Indians or Indios had less than 500 years to populate both North and South America, from the Arctic to Terre Fuego, split in many different tribes and nations, and build massive empires and civilizations like the Aztecs, the Maya, the Inkas and many more.
I would say, if this would be correct, it would be a great deal more impressive than anything the Scandinavians (no offense to Scandinavians) or any other white Europeans achieved.
So what was Sid’s point again?
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Sorry, Cassie-baby, but the "Red Man" has the "White Man" beat by 29,000 years. Try harder next time. Thanks for playing...here's some turtle wax!
The vikings arived around 1000 ce.
The phonecians saw land, and smoke from campfires, around 800 bce.
The athebascans were estalished in the great lakes basin as early as 5000 bce
Golly, the Vikings colonized North America more than 12,000 years ago. I wonder where there artifacts are. The lodges. The temples, etc. Why are these not found?
Because the never existed. There is evidence, based on written records, that the Vikings may have reached North America as early as roughly 1000 CE. There are also a few ambiguous artifacts that support this claim.
There is also unambiguous evidence that the American Aborigines reached the Americas no later than 15,000 BCE, at least 16,000 years before the Vikings.
It reminds me a little of the South African racists who claim that white and black people arrived in ZA about the same time. I don't know if this is true (I'm pretty sure the Bantus got there first), but even if it was, there was a whole bunch of Khoisan there already saying "who the fuck are these people and what do they want with our farmland?"
David:
Actually, Viking settlement in Newfoundland/Labrador is pretty well established. What is a much more interesting question is how sweet potatoes got to Polynesia -- Thor Heyerdahl proved the trip was possible but he was wrong on his specific prediction (that Polynesia was settled from South America), so the whole story is still unknown. As it is, though, the only pre-Columbian west-east contact that we can confirm is the Vikings. (And the Na-Dene whose ancestors came from the Yenisei valley in Siberia well after the original settlement of the Americas, but that's less a confirmed thing than a "well, looks pretty likely but we need more evidence" thing.)
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