[rescue] Digital server 7000r

[Brian Dunbar]

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From: Francisco Javier Mesa-Martinez [mailto:lefa at ucsc.edu]
Sent: Monday, December 16, 2002 3:42 PM
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Subject: Re: [rescue] Digital server 7000r


On Mon, 16 Dec 2002, Joshua D Boyd wrote:

> > Eiriksson during his adventures in eastern North America - 500 years
> > before Columbus' exploits in the "New World". The site was rediscovered
> > by Helge Ingstad and his wife Anne Stine in 1960. L'Anse aux Meadows is
> > now a National Historic Park and a UNESCO World Heritage Site, the first
> > cultural site in the world to receive this designation - a symbol of its
> > outstanding cultural and historical value."
> >
> > From (http://www.biztravel.com/Articles/20000327.html)
>
> My understanding is that technically Greenland is part of America, thus
> it was his father Eric Thorvaldsson who discovered America.

My understanding is that a few thousand years before a bunch of Asian
people crossed the Baring Strait. So I am pretty sure they were the first
ones to actually discover America......

IIRC, there was an earlier race of man who inahbited (and died off) in the
Southwest long, long before the Indians showed up from Asia.  Fossils have
been found, relics, midden pits, etc, but not many.  I wish I had the book
handy for reference but it's in Dallas, boxed up.

I may be wrong <grin>.

~brian