[SunkenCiv]

More information: Pedro M. Raposeiro et al, Climate change facilitated the early colonization of the Azores Archipelago during medieval times, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (2021). DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2108236118

Landscape view of Pico (foreground) and Faial (background) Islands. Credit: Santiago Giralt.

Credit: Santiago Giralt.

[aynrandfreak]

Who does the West have to write a check to now? ;)

[monkeyshine]

It’s beautiful there. But there is little doubt that the area was populated during the Neolithic period some thousands of years before this discovery can show.

[Paladin2]

Norse Country.

Since the interlopers are not Islamic, they can stay.

[Honorary Serb]

.....An international team of researchers has found evidence that people lived on islands in the Azores archipelago approximately 700 years earlier than prior evidence has shown.....

I knew it!!!!

[blueunicorn6]

Didn’t much care for the lemonade there. A little too tart.

[fidelis]

The researchers theorize that they were likely Norse seafarers, noting their accomplishments in sailing up and down the coasts of many parts of Europe.

Sounds like pretty flimsy reasoning. The Norse had boats therefore it must have been the Norse.