[Wonder Warthog]

"“The Harris collection of maps will, in the long run, cause an even more fundamental and agonizing (sic) reappraisal of American history than my book has,” he wrote.

In 1975, Harris’ book, “The Asiatic Fathers of America,” was published in Taiwan. He claimed the Chinese discovered America between 2650 and 2200 B.C."

What balderdash! The difference between the Chinese and Viking "discoveries" of America and the Spanish was that the first two didn't stick around. The Spanish (and later English) did.

Probablity is that the Egyptians beat all of them to the "discovery" part of the equation.

[walden]

I am convinced that there was a great deal more travel, exploration, and trade between early civilizations than we give them credit for. We all tend to think in terms of a Dark Ages European peasant family living in a hut, but it wasn't like that at all-- civilizations rose and fell with regularity. Periods like the peasants in the hut did occur, but there were other periods of a high degree of civilization, and we tend to foreget that.

[SpaceBar]

Just thought I might add that one needn't look much further than the eyes of a navajo teenager behind the counter of a Burger-King to realize that asians have been here for quite some time. Also, if strict chronological date of "discovery" of the americas is the primary argument, there is compelling evidence that black africans arrived here first. But those whose preconceived notions of racial and technological superiority are offended might say that the Olmecs were just having a bad lip/nose day while carving tributes to their kind out of solid rock.