[Oztrich Boy]

Menzies says all records of the voyages were later destroyed.

shesh! one thing we learnt from 1984: If you destroy the records it never happened.

At least the Irish and Norse were bright enough to keep a note of what they did.

[pabianice]

But perhaps more significant than the age, researchers said, is that the skull and other bones were found while a well was being dug near Mexico City International Airport. Because the remains were discovered outside the United States, scientists will be able to study the DNA and structure of the skeleton without the objection of Native American groups, who can claim and rebury ancestral remains under a 1990 U.S. law.

American Indians' pitiful scramble to keep evidence away from scientists is just a delaying tactic. We'll know in the next few years just who got to the Americas first.