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Theories propose that people from elsewhere visited or interacted with the Americas before Columbus. Learn about the evidence, claims, and responses of genetic, plant, and cultural studies.
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
- Charles F. Gritzner
- 2019
The author explores the possibility of early contacts and influences between the cultures of the Old and New Worlds before 1492, based on striking similarities in pyramids, religion, and other aspects. He discusses the resistance and controversy of this idea, and the alternative explanations of independent development or entrained effects.
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.
- Stephen Jett
Jun 27, 2018 · Stephen Jett’s Ancient Oceans Crossings is a complete, simple, and straightforward text that compiles historical and archaeological information about transoceanic contacts between the Western and Eastern hemispheres before 1492.
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.
Oct 10, 2019 · Geographers, historians, anthropologists, archaeologists and others long intrigued by the possibility of pre-Columbian New World contact (PCNWC) have long been frustrated. The idea that non-Western Europeans reached the Americas prior to Columbus bordered on heresy in the Eurocentric mind.
