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Feb 18, 2024 · In approximately 1000 C.E., Norse explorer Leif Erikson established a settlement he called Vinland in what’s believed to be present-day Newfoundland. This would make Erikson the first European to set foot in North America — some 500 years before Christopher Columbus, the man who supposedly “discovered” America.
There, at L’Anse aux Meadows, they discovered the remains of a Viking encampment that they were able to date to the year 1000. These dramatic archaeological discoveries proved not only that the Vikings had indeed explored America some 500 years before Columbus’s arrival but also that they had traveled farther south to areas where grapes ...
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- First Americans: 16,000-35,000 years ago. Almost all Native American tribes – Sioux, Comanche, Iroquois, Cherokee, Aztec, Maya, Quechua, Yanomani, and dozens of others – speak similar languages.
- Na-Dene: 3,000-8,000 BC. Another group, the Na-Dene, crossed the Bering Sea to Alaska around 5,000 years ago, although other studies suggest they settled the Americas as long as 10,000 years ago.
- Eskimo-Aleut: 2,000-2,500 BC. The Inuit descend from an earlier migration: that of speakers of the Eskimo-Aleut languages. These are distinct from other Native American languages, and might even be distantly related to Uralic languages such as Finnish and Hungarian.
- Inuit: AD 900. Just before the Vikings, the Inuit people travelled from Siberia to Alaska in skin boats. Hunting whales and seals, living in sod huts and igloos, they were well adapted to the cold Arctic Ocean, and skirted its shores all the way to Greenland.
The Ingstads demonstrated that Norsemen had reached North America about 500 years before Christopher Columbus. Later archaeological evidence suggests that Vinland may have been the areas around the Gulf of St. Lawrence and that the L'Anse aux Meadows site was a ship repair station and waypoint for voyages there.
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Oct 10, 2016 · America was really discovered a people known as Pre-Clovis who crossed a land bridge between Asian and America 15,000 years ago ... Columbus discovered America." ... about 500 years before ...
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Nearly 500 years before Christopher Columbus crossed the ocean blue, a Norse Viking by the name of Leif Eriksson landed on the North American continent. Eriksson is believed to be the first European to have landed on and established a settlement in North America around 1000 CE. Today, we still ask ourselves, “Who really discovered America?”
Aug 14, 2020 · Leif Eriksson Discovers America by Christian Krohg (1893) Norse culture and mythology captures our imaginations with tales of wild adventure, bawdy celebrations, and rugged landscapes. The saga of Leif Eriksson doesn’t disappoint. Despite the more popularized history of Christopher Columbus. this ancient Norseman was most likely the first ...
