Vikings in Canada (Newfoundland) First- No April Fools

[LowRyter]

I know many here, particularly those from Scandinavia, believe that the Vikings came to North America (Newfoundland) before Columbus. There have been several archaeological finds that support this theory.

PBS is running a Documentary with some new evidence supporting this notion.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/viking-discovery-canada-satellite_us_56fe36bfe4b0daf53aef5a26

[JeffOlson]

Another article:

http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-35935725

[oldbike54]

 Who is Columbus ??

 Dusty

[LowRyter]

Who is Columbus ??

 Dusty

Where is Columbus....Who is on first!

[oldbike54]

Where is Columbus....Who is on first!

 Yeah , and if you're still waiting on him , well , he was lost and very confused 

 Dusty

[LowRyter]

Let's hear it for Little Feat!

[travelingbyguzzi]

Y'all would do well to Google the 'Heavener  Runestone' .

[LowRyter]

been there, Heavener is in Dusty's backyard.  He's been known to chisel on rocks. 

jus' sayin'

[fotoguzzi]

fantastic, I hope they can follow the trail to Alexandria MN..

[oldbike54]

Y'all would do well to Google the 'Heavener  Runestone' .

 

been there, Heavener is in Dusty's backyard.  He's been known to chisel on rocks. 

jus' sayin'

 About that , no the Vikings didn't make it to Heavener , the runes there were actually carved by aliens from (redacted) who were here to visit with (redacted) . Rumor has it that the (redacted) left behind a faster than (redacted) ship that Kirby 1923's aunt kept stored on the ranch in (redacted) for years 

 Dusty

[Sasquatch Jim]

  Everybody knows they made it to Minnisota, they formed a professional football team, and taught brewing skills to the locals.

[Arizona Wayne]

Before you guys have an orgasm, this hasn't been verified yet. But it was on the internet!

[Guido Valvole]

Vikings, Phoenicians, Japanese (see Mayan carvings and statues), several waves of immigrants from northeast Asia and dog nose how many other humans were here, definitely or likely, long before Columbus. Hey, I'm waiting for an unequivocal Homo Erectus to be found, or at least Denisovians/Neanderthals.
cr

[tpeever]

Of course the Vikings were in North America long before any other Europeans. This is news because............ .....

[leafman60]

I know many here, particularly those from Scandinavia, believe that the Vikings came to North America (Newfoundland) before Columbus. There have been several archaeological finds that support this theory.

PBS is running a Documentary with some new evidence supporting this notion.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/viking-discovery-canada-satellite_us_56fe36bfe4b0daf53aef5a26

Yes, I've been following this story.  Very interesting to me.

I have visited the L'Anse aux meadows Viking site in Northern Newfoundland. Discovering another site further south on the island is not surprising. 

This new site is on the southwestern corner of Newfoundland close to the docks for western ferry at Port aux Basques. Been there many times.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%27Anse_aux_Meadows

Also interesting is that the lead researcher/anthropologist is Sarah Parcak from Univ of Alabama Birmingham, not far up the road from me.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/newfoundland-labrador/vikings-newfoundland-1.3515747

[nick949]

No Leafman, the Beothuk(or at least, their ancestors) were the first people in Newfoundland.  They were exterminated by the early nineteenth century.
Another fine legacy of European colonialism.

Nick

[leafman60]

No Leafman, the Beothuk(or at least, their ancestors) were the first people in Newfoundland.  They were exterminated by the early nineteenth century.
Another fine legacy of European colonialism.

Nick

Yes, I am very familiar with Beothuk and their inhabitation of NL.  Still, that doesn't preclude the Norse visiting there and creating settlements.

[Dean Rose]

No Leafman, the Beothuk(or at least, their ancestors) were the first people in Newfoundland.  They were exterminated by the early nineteenth century.
Another fine legacy of European colonialism.

Nick

Good point Nick. Don't get me started about how we civilized white explorers ruined this continent.

Dean 

[nick949]

Yes, I am very familiar with Beothuk and their inhabitation of NL.  Still, that doesn't preclude the Norse visiting there and creating settlements.

I know Leafman (and I know that wasn't your intention), but we have to be ever vigilant with our tendency towards Eurocentrism. I read the (outrageously sensationalist and shoddy) internet reports of the new Norse site in southern Newfoundland, to which my reaction was 'well, that took a while'.  L'anse aux meadows has been fully authenticated and accepted as a World Heritage Site since the 1970s. It was a no-brainer that there would be other settlements, but with a large land mass, small local population, little land-development pressure and difficult surface vegetation, it took a new approach to find it.

Columbus was confused about where he was, but 'discovered' nothing. People from the Basque country of the northern Iberian peninsula had been whaling and fishing off the coast of Newfoundland and Labrador for a hundred years before he turned up. And of course, they were preceded by First Nations people who have been in the Straits of Belle Isle area for about 9500 years - as soon as the glacial ice retreated. 

Nick

[Orange Guzzi]

There are relicis and stone carvings at our local library.   Engraved with the name Magnoc.  Parts of a rock fort on the Ohio river and 14 mile creek.  Charlestown, Indiana.

[Guzzistajohn]

Let's hear it for Little Feat!

Great album!!!

[RANDM]

Good point Nick. Don't get me started about how we civilized white explorers ruined this continent.

Dean

Don't think we did any better over here ……

Maurie.

[John A]

There are relicis and stone carvings at our local library.   Engraved with the name Magnoc. 

That's sposed to be MGNOC , the engraver was sposed to be keeping the wine too.

[Cool Runnings]

Modern map of Antarctica.


Finé's 1531 depiction of Antarctica with Schöner's portrayal of the Unfortunate Islands added.

This leaves us with one last issue to address, the omission of the Palmer Peninsula, where there are a few possible explanations. First I believe that in a pre-glacial Antarctica, Palmer may have existed as an island, separate from Western Antarctica. The subglacial topography allows for this possibility, which would create a similar arrangement as say Sakhalin to Asia. Schöner's source map may therefore have been a territorial map excluding Palmer Island. It is also possible that Palmer may have been omitted to fit the shape of the skin or other medium it was drawn upon. The Tabula Peutingeriana displayed in the previous post omits the greater part of Africa for this very reason.


http://www.atlantismaps.com/forum/index.php?topic=153.0

[Cool Runnings]

Hieroglyphics Experts Declare Ancient Egyptian Carvings in Australia to be AUTHENTIC



http://wakeup-world.com/2014/10/14/hieroglyphics-experts-declare-ancient-egyptian-carvings-in-australia-authentic/

[acogoff]

     Shush!, a lot of us are still here in Viking Mn area. We have an escape ship hidden in Moorhead. Even with the names out there plain as day the self appointed "experts" havn't figured it out. Don't tell anyone, it's all secret.

[Cool Runnings]

Fuente Magna Bowl

The Fuenta Magna is a large stone vessel, resembling a libation bowl, that was found in 1958 near Lake Titicaca in Bolivia.


The two researchers took detailed photographs of the bowl and sent them to epigraphist Dr. Clyde Ahmed Winters, in the hope that he may be able to decipher the inscriptions. Dr. Winters, an ancient languages expert, compared the inscriptions to Libyco-Berber writing used in the Sahara approximately 5,000 years ago. The writing was used by the Proto-Dravidians (of the Indus Valley), Proto-Mande , Proto-Elamites, and Proto-Sumerians. Dr. Winters, in his article “Decipherment of the Cuneiform Writing on the Fuente Magna Bowl,” concluded that the writing on the bowl “was probably Proto-Sumerian,” and offered the following translation:

http://www.theepochtimes.com/n3/993844-fuente-magna-the-rosetta-stone-of-the-americas/

[oldbike54]

 The Misissippian culture traded from the North East to modern day New Orleans . Non native artifacts found their way along trade routes used by the culture . In fact , there is some evidence that at least a modicum of trade and a sharing of culture occurred across the entire N.A. continent , and even all the way to the S.A. continent .

 Dusty

[Cool Runnings]

The Mystery of Chaco Canyon   

[LowRyter]

Good point Nick. Don't get me started about how we civilized white explorers ruined this continent.

Dean

if you want to mention a sad story, what about Squanto?