Ancient "New York City" of Canada discovered

[bobcollum]

Today New York City is the Big Apple of the Northeast but new research reveals that 500 years ago, at a time when Europeans were just beginning to visit the New World, a settlement on the north shore of Lake Ontario, in Canada, was the biggest, most complex, cosmopolitan place in the region.

Ancient "New York City" of Canada discovered - CBS News

 

[JakeStarkey]

https://www.google.com/search?q=azt...QHVzY2LCQ&sqi=2&ved=0CF8QsAQ&biw=1210&bih=683 Compare Mantle with the Aztec nation of the same time.

 

[bobcollum]

Aztec:

Mantle people:

 

[L.K.Eder]

egyptian

 

[Dot Com]

very interesting. I read about the Clovis people that peopled N america before that.

 

[Political Junky]

There's lots of information emerging about Europeans being in North America much earlier than previously thought. This article reveals evidence of Spanish/Basque presence in this city in what is now Canada.

 

[WilliamCody]

There's lots of information emerging about Europeans being in North America much earlier than previously thought. This article reveals evidence of Spanish/Basque presence in this city in what is now Canada.

This is not surprising since the Basques were very active in fishing Cod off the Grand Banks, perhaps even before Columbus.