There's also the complication that human remains have themselves become a political battle - see the controversy over Kennewick Man - so that Indian/native American groups want to re-bury the skeletons while scientists want to investigate the bones to learn more about the make-up of your distant ancestors.
Re the Vikings: yes, I'd forgotten about them. There's no dispute they landed on the continent but they never claimed the areas they visited (on what were essentially foraging raids) as colonies. ---In fairfieldlife@yahoogroups.com, <jr_esq@...> wrote: Seraphita, I believe there are some historians who state that the Vikings might have discovered America as well. Well, the Brits had a chance to keep the colony here. But King George back then was too harsh on the colonists for his own good. I believe there was a Boston Tea Party which created problems for him. The rest is history. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boston_Tea_Party http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boston_Tea_Party http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_III_of_Great_Britain http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_III_of_Great_Britain ---In fairfieldlife@yahoogroups.com, <s3raphita@...> wrote: A Chinese discovered America? In an opium dream maybe. Dr John Dee, astrologer to Queen Elizabeth I, made a formal claim to North America on the back of a map drawn in 1577, noting that c.1494 (three years before Italian John Cabot) Mr Robert Thorn and Mr Eliot of Bristow, discovered Newfound Land. In his Title Royal of 1580, John Dee invented the claim that Madog ab Owain Gwynedd had discovered America, with the intention of ensuring that England's claim to the New World was stronger than that of Spain. You Yanks are the sorcerer's bitches. Can we have our country back please? ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <fairfieldlife@yahoogroups.com> wrote: And sailors from India may have populated South America in the first millennia when they were blown off coarse. Sorta explains the temple you find there. On 10/08/2013 05:15 PM, jr_esq@... mailto:jr_esq@... wrote: In a new book, an author claims it to be true. http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/sideshow/chinese-explorer-may-have-discovered-america-before-columbus--according-to-new-book-201051307.html http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/sideshow/chinese-explorer-may-have-discovered-america-before-columbus--according-to-new-book-201051307.html
