Thread: Who discovered America???????

Originally Posted by Phrank

Actually I thought it was the Viking's and their Orange cats who landed in North America as the first Old World explorers....

Orange cats? Do tell.

Originally Posted by Leatherstockiings

Orange cats? Do tell.

Good old Leif Eriksson 1000 AD - pixel recommended a great book earlier in the year about the Vikings, amazing history. Most of the major cities in Europe were founded by the Vikings and their trade routes.

And accompanying the Vikings on their ships were the ginger cats...they preferred them, they were a variety I think of the Norwegian forest cat.

I am very bad with names and dates. I do listen to a lot of CBC radio. The first documented caucasian explorer to have travel the tree line from more or less coast to coast had commented several times in his travels how he should have been first contact for the Inuit peoples yet there were many of them with blue eyes, and red or blonde hair. I think the Vikings were here and amongst the first people of Canada long before anyone had an inkling. Some of the things that they have found in various digs all over the place are a bit strange too. Some of them support the theories of Leatherstokings too!

My vote would go to Vikings as being the first Caucasians to discover North America https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%27Anse_aux_Meadows .

Bob

RezDog, is Samuel Hearne the explorer you are thinking of?

Just what did Columbus discovered ? There were allready many many people living on the land.

Phrank,

Do you remember the title of the Viking book?

Originally Posted by Leatherstockiings

RezDog, is Samuel Hearne the explorer you are thinking of?

I am so bad with names. I would not ever remember that. After looking at google and reading a little bit it seems likely.

The "Solutrean Hypothesis" has always intrigue me

The Solutrean Hypothesis has it's nay sayers. One of the flaws in that theory that I have heard a few times is although they can make a map showing the different genetic marker and how they have distributed they cannot effectively show which way the people moved, did they come to North America or from North America? Not that I support either side of the theory. I hear a lot about it around here. The Berring ice bridge also. The local mythology is that when the ice receded all life sprang from here. As the area was largely untouched by the ice age there is a small amount of evidence that supports this. I doubt we will ever get to the bottom of it. The Vikings were the earliest modern caucasians shown to have explored and settled. There have been some random caucasian people found on Vancouver island. The discoveries of which made no sense though due to the time frame of the layers in which they were found. Who moved where when is a very complicated discussion to say the least.