Columbus Was Beaten
Trade was taking place between East Asia and the New World hundreds of years before Christopher Columbus arrived in the area in 1492.
This is according to a series of bronze artefacts found at the ‘Rising Whale’ site in Cape Espenberg, Alaska.
Archaeologists discovered what they believe to be a bronze and leather buckle and a bronze whistle, dating to around A.D. 600.
Bronze-working had not been developed at this time in Alaska, and researchers instead believe the artefacts were created in China, Korea or Yakutia.
‘We’re seeing the interactions, indirect as they are, with these so-called ‘high civilisations’ of China, Korea or Yakutia,’ Owen Mason, a research associate at the University of Colorado, told LiveScience.
‘Native copper and meteoritic iron were hammered into a variety objects by late prehistoric inhabitants of arctic and subarctic North America,’ reports the research team on the website Arctic Research Consortium.
‘[But] there is no evidence for the smelting, casting, or alloying of metals in the Western Hemisphere north of Mexico prior to the arrival of Europeans.
around 1,000 years ago.
A controversial hypothesis, put forward by amateur historian Gavin Menzies, suggests that China discovered the Americas 70 years before Columbus. He bases his theory on an alleged 18th century copy of a 1418 map charted by Chinese Admiral Zheng He, which appears to show the New World in some detail
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