Vikings landed in North America 471 years before Columbus

[DigitalDrifter]

Interesting.

An ancient solar storm and some wooden remains from old Nordic village prove that Christopher Columbus was not the first non-Indigenous person in North America, scientists say. New findings show that Vikings landed on the continent 1,000 years ago, and hundreds of years before Columbus.

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[skye]

I've always liked Vikings and Viking's History.

Interesting, thank you for posting.

 

[Harpy Eagle]

Interesting.

Does anyone really think Chris was first?

 

[DigitalDrifter]

Does anyone really think Chris was first?

No, I really doubt there is. I have always viewed Columbus as a figurehead marking the era when western culture first entered this hemisphere.

 

[skye]

Interesting.

Yes, it is, according to studies that is exactly what happened.

Someday we will have to rewrite history!

 

[Mikeoxenormous]

Interesting.

Just as a side note that many people dont realize. They were not Vikings, they were Nordic, and they did Viking which was an occupation.


The etymology of "viking" is uncertain. In the Middle Ages it came to mean Scandinavian pirate or raider. The Anglo-Saxons regarded the word wicing as synonymous with pirate.

 

[task0778]

FYI:

Europeans may have been the first people to settle in America, possibly more than ten thousand years before anyone else set foot there. A series of European-style tools dating from twenty-six-thousand to nineteen-thousand years ago have been discovered in six separate locations along the east coast of the United States. Archaeologists previously thought that America was populated by migrants making their way from Siberia to Alaska, and then spreading through the rest of the continent. But the first of these Asian tribes started moving there about 15,500 years ago – and there is no evidence of human activity in Siberia or Alaska from before that time. Professors Dennis Stanford and Bruce Bradford, the two archaeologists who made the discovery, suggest Europeans moved across the Atlantic during the peak of Ice Age. At the time, a vast tranche of ice covered the Atlantic. The Stone Age migrants would have been able to survive the journey by killing seals, hunting the now-extinct great auks (a sort of giant penguin) and fishing. The archaeologists suggest they may have even used boats for large parts of their travel. Further evidence of their thesis is a knife discovered in Virginia in 1971. Recent tests showed that it was made from French flint. The new hypothesis is unlikely to change what we know about the Indians who greeted the Europeans upon their arrival. The Siberian migrants came to America for longer and in greater numbers, and were either wiped out or absorbed by the European tribes. But it does explain the long-standing mystery of the genetic code and language of some Native American tribes that appear European, not Asian in origin. Further digs are planned deeper inland up to Texas this year, and will help historians and archaeologists understand just how far the original European colonization went.

Stone Age Europeans were first native Americans

Europeans may have been the first people to settle in America, possibly more than ten thousand years before anyone else set foot there.

www.rt.com

BUT - further research:

Originally proposed in the 1970s, the theory has received some support in the 2010s, notably by Dennis Stanford of the Smithsonian Institution and Bruce Bradley of the University of Exeter.[6] However, according to David Meltzer, "Few if any archaeologists—or, for that matter, geneticists, linguists, or physical anthropologists—take seriously the idea of a Solutrean colonization of America."[7] The evidence for the hypothesis is considered more consistent with other scenarios. In addition to an interval of thousands of years between the Clovis and Solutrean eras, the two technologies show only incidental similarities. There is no evidence for any Solutrean seafaring, far less for any technology that could take humans across the Atlantic in an ice age. Recent genetic evidence supports the theory of Asian, not European, origins for the peopling of the Americas.[8][9][10][11]

Solutrean hypothesis - Wikipedia

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I think it's possible that the Solutrean idea could've happened. Maybe the Vikings already knew of lands far to the west before they left home.

 

[excalibur]

Does anyone really think Chris was first?

Columbus was the first to announce it and realize what he had discovered. The New World.

 

[excalibur]

Yes, it is, according to studies that is exactly what happened.

Someday we will have to rewrite history!

Not.

 

[Doc7505]

Does anyone really think Chris was first?

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Too bad we didn't have the internet then... Of course Europeans made it to the Northern Hemisphere now known as the North America. The now touted Piri Reis Map proves that is accurate and even shows the shore line of Antarctica.

The baffling Piri Reis Map of 1513: It showed Antarctica centuries before discovery, but without its ice cap

 

[Doc7505]

Columbus was the first to announce it and realize what he had discovered. The New World.

Actually Columbus was seeking an alternate route to Asia and the East Indies... He wasn't prepared to be blocked by what we now know as the North asnd South American continents.

Christopher Columbus - Wikipedia

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The naming of the Americas, or America, occurred shortly after Christopher Columbus 's first voyage to the Americas in 1492. It is generally accepted that the name derives from Amerigo Vespucci, the Italian explorer, who explored the new continents in the following years.

Naming of the Americas - Wikipedia

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NO!! I didn't add this to belittle you or your post. I posted this to inform the ignorant Progressive Marxist/DSA sheeple.

But Archeological history does show us that not only the Vikings but also it believed that the Celts traveled to the America's. Archeologists seem to believe that the Americas were inhabited by Europeans at different periods of time going back 10,000 years or more.

 

[The Irish Ram]

Just as a side note that many people dont realize. They were not Vikings, they were Nordic, and they did Viking which was an occupation.


The etymology of "viking" is uncertain. In the Middle Ages it came to mean Scandinavian pirate or raider. The Anglo-Saxons regarded the word wicing as synonymous with pirate.

Odin and his wife Frigg were so well thought of that 2 of our days of the week were named after them. Wed. began as Wooden's (Odin anglicized) day and Fri day was named for his wife.

 

[RoshawnMarkwees]

Does this mean the Vikings wiped out the Indians and Minnesota has to become the Minnesota team?

 

[g5000]

Interesting.

Well, obviously other people got here before Columbus. They were waiting on the beach when he arrived.

"Indians" most likely originated from Asia.

 

[Doc7505]

Does this mean the Vikings wiped out the Indians and Minnesota has to become the Minnesota team?

No Somali's are doing that at the present time. They are cleansing their areas of indigenous citizens of Minneapolis and St Paul.

 

[Viktor]

Interesting.

Columbus never reached the mainland. The closest he got was the Bahamas.

 

[22lcidw]

No Somali's are doing that at the present time. They are cleansing their areas of indigenous citizens of Minneapolis and St Paul.

There are others who settled there that usurp the relatives of the Vikings from generations past. Their reputations are to cross the T's and dot the I's.

 

[Godboy]

Does anyone really think Chris was first?

The US wouldnt exist without him. Until "Chris", people didnt know about this land. He was the first person to tell the world that it existed.

 

[Harpy Eagle]

The US wouldnt exist without him. Until "Chris", people didnt know about this land. He was the first person to tell the world that it existed.

Yep, that was a product of the time that it was found again.

 

[Godboy]

Yep, that was a product of the time that it was found again.

It was more than just found. It was charted by a cartographer and the knowledge of its location was then shared with the world. He was the first person to do that, which is why he is one of the most important men in history.