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Some say that there was pre-Columbus African presence in Americas. Do you believe that?
Since the origin of all human life migrated from Africa, I suppose one could argue that "Africans" were the first to arrive in the Americas. If you are arguing that Africans arrived in some period between 10,000 BCE and the arrival of Columbus, I am more than a bit skeptical.
Shouldn't this be more appropriately in the History forum?
To the original question. Maybe, actually most likely. Storms blowing sailors off course would be an accidental cause. Europeans were fishing very close offshore of Newfoundland in the years prior to Columbus landing in the Indies. Vikings had been to North America and founded settlements. But none of these encounters, and postulated Chinese ones on the West Coast, had lasting impacts on either society.
Some say that there was pre-Columbus African presence in Americas. Do you believe that?
Yes, the Olmecs were African, specifically West African and their tradition and myth, plus the traditions and myths of other Meso-American cultures support claims of a a group of colonists coming from across the [eastern] sea.
Only one instance of pre-Columbian European contact – the Norse settlement at in Newfoundland, Canada. 1000 CE – is regarded by scholars as demonstrated. The scientific responses to other pre-Columbian contact claims range from consideration in peer-reviewed publications to dismissal as fringe science or pseudoarcheology.
Read the Ra Expedition by Thor Heyerdahl. Interesting theory. Possible but not proven.
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