“When you add in the Mayan legend that their blue-eyed, blond ‘gods’ came on the sea from the east and disappeared the same way...We’ve got Vikings or Europeans up and down the landmass from Iceland to Tulum, Mexico to Brazil? Argentina? Chili?
It boggles.”
Absolutely... There was once a very viable and possible trade route from Hudson bay to the great lakes and down the Mississippi to the Gulf of Mexico. And possibly even at the end of the Neolithic Period.
There have been prismatic spear points found in east coastal Panama knapped in a particularly unique style that can only be found in one other place in the world, Scandinavia...
that's amazing. another article here on FR yesterday by chance turned me to a map of Estonia - it has a northern coastal city named Tallinn. How close is that linguistically to Tulum? I did a little 'whoa' - makes one wonder...!