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There's evidence as others have pointed out of African expeditions and I've read about evidence of Chinese and Polynesian contact with South America so I'm not
by wavefunction 11y ago
There's evidence as others have pointed out of African expeditions and I've read about evidence of Chinese and Polynesian contact with South America so I'm not sure it was quite as drastic a gulf as you propose.
- cmrdporcupine 11y agoNo significant gene flow, so quite a drastic gulf. The fact that populations in the Americas were decimated by disease after contact should be enough to show how significant it was.
- parennoob 11y agoI did mention the possibility of Polynesian contact in my comment. But neither this nor the Chinese contact has been comprehensively proved, especially not with archaeological evidence.
- runarberg 11y agoNot to mention numerous migrations over the Bering, one of the most resent, the Inuit migration, happened around the same time as the Norse explorations.