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Pre-Columbian transoceanic contact theories are speculative theories which propose that visits to the Americas, interactions with the Indigenous peoples of the Americas, or both, were made by people from elsewhere prior to Christopher Columbus's first voyage to the Caribbean in 1492 .
Pre-Columbian transoceanic contact theories are speculative theories which propose that visits to the Americas, interactions with the Indigenous peoples of the Americas, or both, were made by people from elsewhere prior to Christopher Columbus's first voyage to the Caribbean in 1492.
Worlds before 1492 indicate there were early contacts between hemispheres, resulting in the civilizations influencing each other. Stephen C. Jett. My topic today is an attempt to address the question, How can. we explain the existence of striking similarities between certain.
In an article about to appear in Pre-Columbiana, anthropologist William Smole (2001) makes a persuasive circumstantial case for Southeast Asian domesticate’s pre-Columbian use in South and Middle America.
- Stephen Jett
Apr 1, 2003 · This conclusion is reinforced by the discovery of the occurrence of residues of THC from Asian-origin hashish in a number of pre-Columbian Peruvian mummies (Parsche, Balabanova, & Pirsig...
Objection: Only artifacts can prove contact. Had important interactions occurred, we would find significant numbers of extrahemispheric artifacts in archaeological sites, but (except for a few late-pre-Columbian Norse objects in Canada and Maine) we do not.
A review of the circumstances of this discovery did not demonstrate any sign of possible post-Columbian intrusion and permits the acceptance of the object as the first hard evidence from Mesoamerica to support pre-Hispanic transoceanic contacts between the Old and New Worlds. The issue of pre-Columbian transoceanic contacts between the Old
