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Whether transoceanic travel occurred during the historic period, resulting in pre-Columbian contact between the settled American peoples and voyagers from other continents, is vigorously debated. Only a few cases of pre-Columbian contact are widely accepted by mainstream scientists and scholars.
Pre-Columbian trans-Bering Strait contact. The similar cultures of peoples across the Bering Strait in both Siberia and Alaska suggest human travel between the two places ever since the strait was formed. [1]
Pre-Columbian transoceanic contact theories are speculative theories which propose that visits to the Americas, interactions with the Indigenous peoples of the Americas, or both, were made by people from elsewhere prior to Christopher Columbus's first voyage to the Caribbean in 1492.
The question of transoceanic influences is an appropriate subject at a time when the first voyage of Columbus has recently been celebrated by some, deplored by others, or at least observed through-
In an article about to appear in Pre-Columbiana, anthropologist William Smole (2001) makes a persuasive circumstantial case for Southeast Asian domesticate’s pre-Columbian use in South and Middle America.
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pre-Columbian New World contact (PC-NWC) have long been frustrated. The idea that non-Western Europeans reached the Americas prior to Columbus bordered on heresy in the Eurocentric mind. Little hard evidence existed for such contacts, at least as assessed by those holding tra-ditional views. Many readers might recall
Jun 27, 2018 · transoceanic contacts between the Western and Eastern hemispheres before 1492. The book is a first step towards revising several lines of evidence and ideas surrounding sea trips and pre-Columbian contacts. This very personal book not only shows the development of Stephen Jett’s academic life and motivations, but also transforms
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