Across Before Columbus?: Evidence for Transoceanic Contact with the Americas Prior to 1492

by Donald Y. Gilmore

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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0966303806
• ISBN13: 9780966303803
• Release Date: January 1998
• Publisher: New England Antiquities Research Association
• Length: 313 Pages
• Weight: 2.30 lbs.

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Research on across before Columbus

This is a huge volume of papers from the conference at 1992 Brown University with a group of interesting scholars. They try to tackle the question: Did civilization blossom in the Americas through independent invention or were cultural and physiological traits borrowed diffused from civilizations across the seas? It is interesting to learn from this group of university professors and researchers who offer their findings in pottery, architectural style and brickmaking, symbols, glyphs and inscriptions, transport, language, botany and biology. Native Americans established themselves with magnificent legacy which was either ignored or diminished as primitive. Across after Columbus reduced natives by killings and diseases and their cultures were burnt and destroyed to confine to that of the conquerors. It is no doubt that Natives were the people who came through Bering Strait from Asia and they were in this new world for a very long time. Americans only remember them in Thanksgiving turkey and pumpkin pies and Columbus "discovered" the new world. These group of scholars shared their ideas and research in this book to challenge our conventional thinking by compare and contrast the new and old worlds. Who had the most impact on Native American culture, Asia, Europe, Africa? Reading this book may not be able to give a conclusive answer but will stimulate to explore more for answer.