Who Discovered America? Not Christopher Columbus, Thats for Certain. So Who Really Discovered America? The oldest mongoloid skull found in American soil dates back 9000 years where as the oldest Caucasian skull dates back 13000 years.. Christopher Columbus did not discover America, no more than he proved that the world was not flat. Sailing off at the behest of the king and queen of Spain to find a shorter passage to India may have been a brave thing to do, but Christopher Columbus voyages and discoveries are questioned today. Archaeology and common sense have given us alternate events that predate Christopher Columbus and that tell us that he wasnt the first human or the first European to set foot on an American shore. But Columbus Day need not be about who discovered America. It can just as easily be about the man who helped popularize the idea of European expansion into the New World. But dont expect a Native American to salute the Genoan sailor anytime soon, no matter what position he takes in the line of discoverers that made it to the Americas. But before all that, before the European hordes that would descend on the native populations of North and South America due to Christopher Columbus discovery of a New World to colonize and exploit, others set foot on American shores. In fact, there exists cartographic evidence, according to cartographic expert Armando Cortesao, that Portuguese explorers visited the Americas and mapped the area in 1424, but other than the map itself, there is no information. It also known that Norse explorer Leif Erikson set foot in the Americas long before 1492, according to Icelandic sagas, having pulled his Viking longboat into the shallows off modern Newfoundland, Canada. Archaeologists found remains of a Viking-type settlement in 1963. It is believed to have been extant around 1000 A.D., roughly half a century before Christopher Columbus discovered America.
Posted on: Tue, 25 Mar 2014 14:49:34 +0000
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