Posted on 03/06/2021 5:51:24 AM PST by mbrfl
Right you are.
Doesn’t China own the History Channel now?
I’ve been waiting for fake archaeological finds to be promoted worldwide now for about a decade with this so-called new evidence being found.
Same thing in Israel with “Islamic discoveries” and “Chinese Praetoriums” dating back to 1000 BC.
The great Olmec adventurer “Temuctlan” discovered Europe and introduced the Neanderthals living there to pizza.
I would buy a story about Hanno the Navigator discovering the Americas before any Chinese story.
LA Marzulli did a series of videos about the ancient Philistines packing up and moving to South America. A good portion of those alien elongated skulls they find in Peru supposedly have Middle Eastern mitochondrial DNA.
The greatness of Columbus is not that he was the first non-American to reach these shores. There is evidence that European fishermen were fishing off the Great Banks before Columbus and that Columbus knew this. No, his place in history is that having once arrived here, he returned to Europe and announced it to the world, connecting the Old Word and the New World for the first time.
I was watching a documentary on the ‘Clovis People’ and immigrants that may even predate Clovis. Apparently, there’s some evidence that the very first pre-historic visitors to the North American continent may have been European in origin. At worst, the arrival of Europeans and Asians may have been reasonably simultaneous. For reasons not yet understood, the European settlers didn’t make it. They either returned home or perished.
In any event, the ‘accepted scientific belief’ that Clovis was first and originated either in Asia or Oceana has become almost a touchstone of faith in archeological circles. To suggest otherwise makes one a kind of heretic probably because the notion that Europeans first colonized North America is too unsettling to the accepted contemporary orthodoxy of the White Interloper.
The islands he got to are considered part of the North American continent.
I used to have a book titled THEY ALL DISCOVERED AMERICA by Charles Michael Boland.
Interesting but still take it with a grain of salt. Or even better, a spoonfull of salt.
I believe I have seen that show. The main point was the Clovis people learned to chip flint points from the Europeans they encountered at that time because flints found in Siberia were vastly different from those points found in the Americas.
But then. like so many so-called TV science shows take it with a grain of salt.
Forensic geologist Scott Wolter weighs in, again, on some idea that was, ahem, borrowed from someone else.
I watched this a few days ago when it showed up on my Recommended vids on YT. He’s always got good footage, and occasionally (like with the “wall” in Texas episode) he comes to the right conclusion. In this one, he saddled on to an idea from the late Gavin Menzie and it was a lot of fun watching Scott build up to detonation.
America Unearthed: Ancient Ruins Discovered in California (S3, E7)
1,434,605 views
Feb 21, 2021
Just east of the San Francisco Bay Area are the Berkeley Hills Walls—remnants of a massive, stone wall that stretches a distance of over fifty miles, in Season 3, Episode 7, “Marco Polo Discovers America.”
Here’s something else about it:
Uncovering the Real Story Behind the ‘East Bay Mystery Walls’
Dan Brekke
Aug 31, 2018
https://www.kqed.org/news/11689504/uncovering-the-real-story-behind-the-mysterious-east-bay-walls
IMHO, they served the purpose of systematically funneling wild game into ever-smaller areas where they could be ambushed and harvested. The same technique was used elsewhere, not only in the Americas.
Still, thanks for the ping, this was going to go up at some point, glad someone else took care of it. GGG ping is next. Let’s make this message the Digest ping.
The Runestone caves in NE Oklahoma prove that the Vikings were here long before Columbus....
I could posit a comment concerning several peoples coming to America before Columbus, but no proof has been found. I mean, we’re only just now finding things in other countries that verify cultures much older than anyone thought. And whatever happened to Pangea???
‘Face
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I think 2018 was generally a pretty good year for wine.
https://www.wine-searcher.com/find/pangea+sra+apalta+colchagua+valley+chile
LOL!!
Thanks! I’ll keep that in mind! ;o])
Lots of folks got to the Americas before Columbus BUT it was the Spanish, zealous after a 700 year holy war with Muslims, who came to change the native for Jesus! They really impacted the new world and the whole world! New world things to Europe (imagine Italian cooking without Tomatoes?) New world things to Asia (Imagine Chinese food without cabbage?) It was a historic sharing of Cultures. All others just visited and did a little trade (Carthage for cocaine to sell to Egypt) Some new ideas were exchanged but no real attempt to evangelize and change the Native People like super Catholic Spain.
“So I made light of the marxist-inspired revisionism and cancellation of the present. History is good to know, provided that it is the truth.”
You are correct, sir. English historian George MacDonald Fraser said something to the effect that when two peoples meet in a howling wilderness, and for some reason they both want it, one of them goes down.
Cannot find it now, but there was an article that described some Chinese explorer who discovered America in something like pre-1000 A.D. (not the 1421 book) He described a voyage south along the coast, mentioning mountains that corresponded to those in Washington and Oregon. He later described going inland and discovering "a great rift in the land that went on for miles" that has been interpreted at the Grand Canyon. Cool, IF true.
No follow-up expedition was made, and years later, the memory of that trip was forgotten and a later emperor declared the report a fable and destroyed it.
Zheng He made it to east Africa, but I am not aware of any evidence he went across the pacific.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zheng_He
EXACTLY
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