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This also mean that maybe Chinese or other Asiatic people could have reached the (north) America before Europeans. Interesting.
by notorandit 3y ago
This also mean that maybe Chinese or other Asiatic people could have reached the (north) America before Europeans. Interesting.
- devb 3y agoIt's possible that they not only reached it, but spread across both American continents before Europeans arrived.
- canadianfella 3y ago[dead]
- jwestbury 3y agoThere's also strong linguistic evidence of Polynesian contact with South America prior to European contact, and quite possibly contact with North America[0]. There's also some more recent genetic evidence[1]. 0. https://www.jstor.org/stable/25132351 https://www.jstor.org/stable/25132351 1. https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/native-americans-polynesians-meet-180975269/ https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/native-america...
- euroderf 3y agoFWIW the first chapter of "Hawaii" by James Michener gives a feel for the seafaring involved in populating the Pacific.