Who was the 1st to discover America?

I have a National Geographic map of south America, with pictures representing the people, or showing their artifacts in the different regions and it looks like all the races are represented.

The Phoenician could have discovered the Americas.  But this would be after Asians crossed the land bridge. 

http://phoenicia.org/america.html




Edited by Athena - 28-Mar-2011 at 11:19

Egyptians,coca is inside the mummies! 

Johnny come lately here. Much more research has been done about the peopling of N.A. I have found the book "Advanced Civilizations of Prehistoic America" by Frank Joseph really good. Now the first thing out of the "its not true - its garbage" crowd will be -- hoax or fraud. Oh well. the blind leading the blind again. I think the sailors of Europe and the North Atlantic knew all about the continent. They also knew all about the Grand Banks and the cod industry. From the Vikings to the Templars to the Scots to the European sailors. A person just has to figure in the fact that 98% (+/-)of the population was illiterate and everything was word of mouth. Yes, a few monks and explorers had journals, etc and they really are our only source of material. BUT THAT'S NOT TRUE. The continent is littered with ruins and artifacts all over the place and I don't think Native Americans took a lot of time building these things (for one - Cahokia). I have been there. We are soooo stuck in the "white, European" mode that our eyes have very big blinders on.

Originally posted by pinguin There is no evidence. Period.

That's not true. One group crossed over around 500 AD and, by about 1200 AD, had colonized part of the Americas from the Pacific to the Atlantic, setting up an entire civilization.

The Inuit.

Edited by Sander - 10-Dec-2008 at 17:57

Originally posted by Count Belisarius ... What's a chupacraba?

Originally posted by red clay ...  Actually it's going the other way around.  With academic institutions such as the University of Pennsylvania Museum heavily engaged in research in the Beni and other regions, not to mention the work being done by the Mexican government as well as other local institutions, The scientific evidence for contact is growing yearly.

Originally posted by pinguin Originally posted by Mixcoatl Originally posted by pinguin It is simply racism that education has not yet erased from the mentality of people outside the Americas. hmmm, my impression is that those theories are even more popular inside the Americas than they are outside the Americas   Indeed, but mainly between people with low education. Yes, the same people that believes in the widow, the bad eye, UFOs, ghosts, abductions and the chupacabras, tend to believe in ancient white teachers coming to Tiahuanaco, and that the Atlantis was in the Andes. They also tend to believe they are pure european descendents, while genetics tell otherwise. Therefore, they accept wild ideas born in europe as if they were the truth. Not only ufology and pyramid science, but also pre-columbian contacs and nazi esoterism.   Most people with a little bit of culture, though. admire the originality of the ancient cultures of the Andes and pride of them. And after visiting so many museums, and reading so much about it, they get convinced that pre-Columbian contacts is balooney.

Originally posted by Mixcoatl Originally posted by pinguin It is simply racism that education has not yet erased from the mentality of people outside the Americas. hmmm, my impression is that those theories are even more popular inside the Americas than they are outside the Americas

Edited by pinguin - 31-Aug-2008 at 13:51

Originally posted by Sander The isolationist assertion that the Indians were the only ones in the world with zero outside influence on the ancient civilizations , until conquered by europeans, seems extremely unlikely...