Phoenician ships could have crossed the Atlantic over 2,000 years before Christopher Columbus ‘discovered’ the American continent.
= = = = = = = = = = =
NOTE...could have...
If I had known in 1956 that I could have DECLARED I was a black female with talent, Lord only knows that I COULD have been the 1st Black Female President are at least an NFL or NBA super star...
We can suspect I am ‘wrong’, but......
Didn’t they still believe that dragons and such occupied the area right behind the end of what the eye could see?
Didn’t C Columbus have to ‘Shanghai’ most of his crew because the common ‘fear’ was ‘falling off the edge’?
WE all now know that the world ISN’T flat, because cats would have pushed everything off the edge by now.
A: No, they didn’t.
A: No, he didn’t.
No he had to get most of his crew from prisons because people knew that the earth was much bigger then he said it was.
They were right.
If he had not had the luck to run into a place where he could take on fresh food and water they would have all died.
Columbus really sucked at math.
One must be careful about the assumptions of why things are stated as they are because science is not always science and science doesn’t have to agree with its self which leads to leads to some strange situations.
Huge amounts of copper was mined by local tribes in the distant past.
The tribes were not users of copper technology.
The tribes claim they traded the copper to people with hair like fire and eyes like ice.
Copper with a signature that appears to have come from this area has been found in places around the Med.
Proposing any theory attempting to unify these facts by specifying who you think may have been involved in cross Atlantic trade at that time makes you a racist or a paranormal hunting lunatic.
You, a researcher that must acquire funding for the next project, are not going to go anywhere near attempting to prove this.
“Lunatics” and “racists” don’t get funded.
“Could” is the closest you will get to many things until science is again controlled by scientists instead of the funding controlled by sjw’s and an old guard that built a career on protecting falsehoods.