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>The name Celts was the designation given to those peoples who emerged from the same geographical location where the so called 'Lost Tribes of Israel' had disappeared from at an earlier stage of world history. These people migrated across Europe to settle in the British Isles and the coasts of France and Spain....

He's right on the money, as far as this part goes. For more, click on my Profile.

> ...The term Phoenician is a general one, which covers not only the seafaring peoples based in the ancient cities of Tyre and Sidon (on the coast of modern Lebanon) but also the sea-roving Israelite tribes of Dan, Asher and Zebulon, whose tribal territories in Canaan were adjacent to these city states on the East Mediterranean coastline. These peoples planted trading posts and mercantile colonies along the shores of north Africa and Spain, and they engaged in a flourishing tin trade in the southwest corner of the British Isles,

Also accurate, but parts of the tribe of Judah, lead by Judahs son Zara were also part of these "early leavers" by sea from Egypt ~1600 BC, which correlates timewise with your theory of the massive volcanic eruption at Thera.

I believe it was these seagoing Israelites who came to America BC and left such large traces, rather than the traditional Lost Tribes of Israel who did not escape from Assyria until a thousand years later, ~600 BC. Perhaps it was both?

Interesting stuff! I had heard (and read) about the vikings, but this is news to me. I think that our ancient ancestors were not wimpy, and easily traversed the oceans of the world long before Columbus et al.

Good post.

Hmmm....Zechariah Sitchin has also made the claim that Semitic peoples were present in North and South America sometime way back when. (Yes,I'm aware that Sitchin has a tinfoil hat reputation,of sorts,but I've read some of his work,and it's pretty hard to argue it down)