Some pre-Columbian discoveries of America.

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Excerpt from Some Pre-Columbian Discoveries of America Was America known to the ancients. That is a question often asked, but one so vague as to be incapable of a single categorical answer.

The form of the question embraces all nations and all time to the fall of the Roman Empire in A. Author: George Rogers Howell. Audio Books & Poetry Community Audio Computers, Technology and Science Music, Arts & Culture News & Public Affairs Non-English Audio Spirituality & Religion Librivox Free Audiobook Gabe Podcast Sakthi Monk Media Gentleman and Lady's Book of Politeness and Propriety of Deportment, The by CELNART, Élisabeth Olivier I LOVE PACA Podcast Pages: Pre-Columbian Discoveries of the New World by Asians, Africans and Europeans: And some Ancient Native American Voyages to Europe, Africa and Asia 2nd Edition by John Oxenham Goodman (Author)5/5(1).

Pomponius Mela, the Roman geographer, born in Spain about SOME PRE-COLUMBIAN DISCOVERIES OF AMERICA. 11 the middle of the first century A. D., at the close of his fifth chapter of his third book, " De Situ Obis," has the following language: " What was beyond the Caspian Sea in former times was unknown ; whether the same ocean, or a land of perpetual.

PRE-COLUMBIAN DISCOVERIES OF AMERICA. 13 Apostile," we may conclude that Greenland must have been discovered about by Norwegians or Icelanders.* The Iceland Chronicle, our only other, but far more trustworthy source of information, published about the yearputs the discovery of Greenland as late as My current favorite is.

New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus: Charles C. Mann. The sequel. Uncovering the New World Columbus Created: Charles C. Mann. is still interesting, but not so much a good read. There is some relevant discussion to be found in.

The article ‘ Restoration | 6 Discoveries that Show the Pre-Columbian Americas Traded Across the Oceans ’ was originally published on minethehive and has been republished with permission. Resources: L.H. Clegg, “The Black origin of American civilization”, A Current Bibliography on African Affairs, No.1 ()Author: Ancient-Origins.

It is questionable, however, whether Dr. Cortesão’s conclusions concerning the map’s evidence of a pre-Columbian discovery of America will be generally accepted. He recognizes that, without the documentary proof of a specific voyage, the subject will ever remain in the realm of speculation and contention—“I know it only too well, alas,” he says.

8 rows    Free kindle book and epub digitized and proofread by Project. It is questionable, however, whether Dr. Cortesão’s conclusions concerning the map’s evidence of a pre-Columbian discovery of America will be generally accepted. He recognizes that, without the documentary proof of a specific voyage, the subject will ever remain in the realm of speculation and contention—“I know it only too well, alas.

America, PRE-COLUMBIAN DISCOVERY OF.—Of all the alleged discoveries of America before the time of Columbus, only the bold voyages of exploration of the fearless Vikings to Greenland and the American mainland can be considered historically certain.

Although there is an inherent probability for the fact of other pre-Columbian discoveries of America, all accounts of such. THE PRE–COLUMBIAN DISCOVERY OF THE AMERICAN CONTINENT BY MUSLIM SEAFARERS Excerpt from GESCHICHTE DES ARABISCHEN SCHRIFTTUMS Vol.

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I, Historical Presentation, Part 1, Frankfurt File Size: 5MB. Ancient Earthworks of North America suggest pre-Columbian European contact ; History Rewritten. Early Humans were in North AmericaYears Ago ; Thor’s Theories.

Some theorists propose that we should begin to appreciate our ancestors for what they were: great open-ocean navigators who circumnavigated the planet. Thor Heyerdahl. This is the Pre-Columbian thread.

This thread is about the following: "The Pre-Columbian era incorporates all period subdivisions in the history and prehistory of the Americas before the appearance of significant European influences on the American continents, spanning the time of the original settlement in the Upper Paleolithic to European colonization during the.

Christopher Columbus 's "discovery" of the Americas in led to the introduction of many novel crops to Europe and subsequently to European colonies in Asia and Africa, forever changing the global food landscape.

The strongest evidence of African presence in America before Columbus comes from the pen of Columbus himself. Ina renowned American historian and linguist, Leo Weiner of Harvard University, in his book, Africa and the discovery of America, explained how Columbus noted in his journal that Native Americans had confirmed that “black.

The theory of Phoenician discovery of the Americas suggests that the earliest Old World contact with the Americas was not with Columbus or Norse settlers, but with the Phoenicians (or, alternatively, other Semitic peoples) in the first millennium BC.

It is possible. In his bestselling book, " The Year China Discovered America," British amateur historian Gavin Menzies turns the story of the Europeans' discovery of America on its ear with a startling idea: Chinese sailors beat Christopher Columbus to the Americas by more than 70 years.

The book has generated controversy within the halls of scholarship. David Imhotep, the author behind the book “The First Americans Were Africans: Documented Evidence,” “Egyptian artifacts found across North America from the Algonquin writings on the East Coast to the artifacts and Egyptian place names in the Grand Canyon” are all signs of an early arrival in the Americas by Size: 1MB.

The African, and Muslim, Discovery of America – Before Columbus Dr. Abdullah Hakim Quick (Adopted with permission from the book, Deeper Roots, Muslims in the Americas and the Caribbean from before Columbus to the Present, by Dr.

Abdullah Hakim Quick, DPB Printers and Booksellers, Cape Town, South Africa. Barley is mentioned four times in the Book of Mormon.

1  Once this was considered a problem because it was believed that domesticated barley was unknown in the Americas until after the arrival of Columbus. 2  In the early s, however, archaeologists announced the surprising discovery of pre-Columbian domesticated barley at a Hohokam archaeological site in Phoenix .A very intelligent sketch, at least for those times, was given by J.

Reinhold Forster, who frankly concedes the pre-Columbian discovery of America, in a History of the Voyages and Discoveries made in the North. Robertson speaks of them in his History of America, but says that he is unable to give an intelligent opinion. Indeed, the most of the.Of all the alleged discoveries of America before the time of Columbus, only the bold voyages of exploration of the fearless Vikings to Greenland and the American mainland can be considered historically certain.

Although there is an inherent probability for the fact of other pre-Columbian discoveries of America, all accounts of such discoveries (Phoenician, Irish, Welsh.