settled Central America... </SARCASM>
Kon-Tiki
If they did, it was only Columbus who informed the rest of the world this awesome place exists and it stayed that way...
Luckily, he didn’t plant The Flag of Dixie on this great land or he would be erased from memory, never to be spoke of again and made completely irrelevant
America was discovered by a fellow named Harry Mastadon. . . He can't help if that he always gets frozen by stage fright when asked to speak before large groups, so he just didn't announce it. Besides, brushing his tusks takes so long he keeps missing the meeting of the Siberian Chapter of the Paleolithic Geographic Society where he was scheduled to make his announcement of what is on the other side of that land bridge. . .
well maybe but they certainly didn’t capitalize on the discovery. we did. and they discovered gunpowder but someone else put it in front of a bullet and they discovered pasta but look at what the Italians did with that. when you go ino a chinese restaurant all you see is noodles.
Look. This is how it happened. A few thousand years ago, Some native American kids were bored one day. While painting pictures of aliens and ufos, they made some chicken scratch doodles on the rock. Years passed and the degradation of the chicken scratches got weathered into a mess of lines that resemble chinese words. Remember this guy is an “ amateur”so he reads the pictographs much like a Rorschach ink blot. He doesnt get a professional chinese linguist to come read it and render an expert opinion.
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settled Central America... </SARCASM>
I said that the government, and archeologists working in tandem with the government, will start making claims that build, and puff up China's bona fides. Did you know the Chinese invented the light bulb in 1674? Did you know that the chinese were the first to use a blender?
I wish I could remember where I once read that Michigan copper was found in the pyramids.
It seems that MI copper has a very high percentage of silver unlike copper from other areas which makes it readily identifiable.
Or so said the article.
It was around that date that people started to report their dogs and cats had gone missing.
First, I think Oog, the actual first discoverer would disagree.
The Pacific Northwest has the Japanese current sweeping things from Japan. Parts of temple gates, glass net floats and other things including the recent boats and floating piers have been found from BC to Southern Oregon. Why not a boat full of storm driven fishermen?
The Chinese could have easily used this same current to take them to America.
Plus, the petroglyphs to me only have a superficial resemblance to the old Chinese writing.
And if Chinese did arrive at that time, why would they try wandering around a desert? No horses in North America at the time.
I read that there was not enough copper available to Europeans to get the bronze age going except for the huge ammounts that were mined in the Great Lakes area and that ancient smelted copper can be traced to its origins by studuying the impurities. Most of the bronze so studied is identical with copper in those Great Lakes mine areas which were mined throughout the bronze age and ceased to be used about the time iron supplanted bronze. The identity of the origins of the impurities was sloughed off by mainstream (the old guys in the universities) archaeologists as an obvious anomaly that just hasn’t been explained yet.
I read Over The Edge of the World by Magellan’s chronicler. The Chinese fleet was all over the western Pacific trading and whatever. Just before Magellan, the emperor grounded most of the fleet saying people should come to China and not the other way around. This coincidentally let Magellan sail right into the Philippines.
The Chinese ships were described as 2-3 times larger than Columbus’ They certainly had the wherewithal for long sea voyages. However, no evidence of a trip in the 14th and 15th centuries.