Portuguese may have 'discovered' Australia! (Not Captain Cook)

CNN ^ | Tuesday, October 8, 2002 Posted: 1050 GMT | SYDNEY, Australia (Reuters)

[vannrox]

SYDNEY, Australia (Reuters) --Captain Cook fans who credit the English explorer-adventurer with the formal "discovery" of eastern Australia may have to think again.

History teacher Greg Jefferys said on Tuesday he believed he had found remains of a Portuguese warship buried under a beach in what is now the state of Queensland and he had dated the wreck to as much as 200 years before James Cook landed in Botany Bay.

[vannrox]

Intersting.

[headsonpikes]

"...eunuch or pre-eunuch times."

Much like our own, apparently. ;^)

[Sabertooth]

((((((growl)))))

[William McKinley]

Keep Free Republic Rockin' 'Round The Clock!
	Donate Here By Secure Server Or mail checks to FreeRepublic , LLC PO BOX 9771 FRESNO, CA 93794 or you can use PayPal at Jimrob@psnw.com
STOP BY AND BUMP THE FUNDRAISER THREAD

[blam]

Ship Find May Predate Cook (Australia)

[BlueLancer]

Yeah, but since the ship sank there and no one from the crew survived to return to Portugal to tell anyone about it, does it make any difference?

It's akin to the old conundrum "If a tree falls in the forest and no one is there to hear it, does it make a sound?"

[Jakarta ex-pat]

Yorkshireman BUMP.

[steve-b]

I would think that if there'd been significant contact with Europe or China a few centuries before Cook, the aborigines wouldn't have died off so severely after Cook & Co. brought their germs.

[GunLvr]

Any chance that those Portuguese sailors also introduced Portuguese Water Dogs to Australia?

GunLvr

[SunkenCiv]

A Crash from the Past.

Please FREEPMAIL me if you want on, off, or alter the "Gods, Graves, Glyphs" PING list --
Archaeology/Anthropology/Ancient Cultures/Artifacts/Antiquities, etc.
The GGG Digest -- Gods, Graves, Glyphs (alpha order)

[SunkenCiv]

· join list or digest · view topics · view or post blog · bookmark · post a topic ·
	Gods Graves Glyphs	Just updating the GGG info, not sending a general distribution. To all -- please ping me to other topics which are appropriate for the GGG list. GGG managers are Blam, StayAt HomeMother, and Ernest_at_the_Beach
· Google · Archaeologica · ArchaeoBlog · Archaeology magazine · Biblical Archaeology Society · · Mirabilis · Texas AM Anthropology News · Yahoo Anthro & Archaeo · · History or Science & Nature Podcasts · Excerpt, or Link only? · cgk's list of ping lists ·