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The examine of whether Europeans migrated to the Americas sometime in period has been a long difference of opinion. In fact, for done 200 age scholars have asked whether prehistoric Europeans peradventure migrated to the Americas preceding to Columbus' finding. For example, by 1891 a decibels appropriate America Not Discovered by Columbus, by Rasmus B. Anderson, restrained a listing with every 350 sources on the content. It recorded claims of America's discovery by Chinese, Arabs, Welsh, Venetians, Portuguese, and Poles. However, the number of the references corroborated the belief of Vikings as the basic Old World taste quantity to limit the Americas.

This speculation was unchangeable in 1960 when Norse debris at L'Anse aux Meadows on the yankee tip of Newfoundland were found by Helge Ingstad. More not long respective sites and lines of confirmation have been cited as supporting an even quicker movement of Europeans into the Americas. This hypothesis, named the Solutrean hypothesis, postulates that Upper Palaeolithic peoples from Europe utilizing Solutrean metal technology migrated into the Americas during the belated Pleistocene. Evidence biased specified an argument, however, residue hard to pin down and importantly controversial, first and foremost because the Solutrean concluded in Europe at smallest 5,000 age before the firstborn metallic element practical application appeared in the Americas. Likewise, archaeological, craniomorphological, and transmissible tribute argues hostile any pre-Columbus European settlements in the Americas that lasted more than a few seasons. For a more indepth meeting of the prehistory of the Americas and the cultural relationship of American Indians to another groups, I put forward you consult my copy "Respect for the Ancestors: American Indian Cultural Affiliation in the American West" (Bauu Press, 2005).