Europeans in the Americas before Columbus or Leif Erickson?

Question

What do you think? It seems the evidence is piling up. The Clovis spear points, Kennewick Man, and the bearded white gods of Meso-America (Con-Tici Viracocha, Quetzalcoatl, Bochica, etc.), to name some of the more well known finds.

There are also the lesser know finds like the Megalithic sites along the Connecticut River in New England. I have been to some of these in Vermont, and I have also seen the ones in Carnac France, and I must say they do appear to have some similarities.

Could this go beyond the Americas? What about the long-ears of Easter Island, the Kon Tiki expedition of Thor Heyerdahl, or the redhead mummies of China?

It appears that there may have been more migrations of humanity then we can confirm. What do you know about all of this?

Answer 1

It is so refreshing to know that there are other people out there that can look at these things and say maybe we don't know it all yet maybe our history isn't what we thought it was. I have done a lot of research in those areas myself and say the same things it is just to much evidence to ignore but there are a lot of people that don't want to look at the evidence, they don't want to believe anything other then what has been spoon fed them so far.
Why to go!

Answer 2

There is an author named Barry Fell who wrote a coupleof books one of which was entitled AMERICA BC. This is good material for the man who wants to speculate and have fun with history. We don't know who made discovery voyages and when in most cases, or who was just blown off course and landed here. Things to look up are:

St. Brendan
Madoc
Melungeons

Also read a book by Samuel Eliot Morrison concerning the discovery voyages. Personally, I think Morrison has his head full of fluff. He wrote what many call the end all biography of Columbus, but when information about other discoverers came to light, he wrote this volume on the voyages purely to debunk the other stories. It was like Brer Rabbit hitting tar baby, everyone he stuck his fist into got him hung up.

The Madoc story is best told in a book by Zella Armstrong. I knew her for about 25 years in Chattanooga before she did but did not know of her book on Madoc. There are other books on Madoc, one virtually 100% plagarized from Armstrong's book, even to the extent of plagarizing the introduction!

As for the Melungeons, you can look for information on them on the internet and there are a few books. Little, virtually nothing, is known about how they got here. I would speculate that they were fishermen blown off course. Run reading!

Answer 3

What I have learned about these very ancient civilizations is some mythology is more abundant than hard scientific facts.

I wish I knew more facts but please check out this site. Because rituals are also similar around the world.