Group met with Dr. Esposito to organize how the project will be run along with our scheduled meetings to take place on the Kean campus. We defined our 4 major key objectives, Language Translations, Historical Basis, Archaeological Evidence, and DNA analysis and evidence. Also mentioned by Dr. Esposito were key experts who have work related to our key objectives to help in our research.
5/23/12 Progress
Craig: Continued with spreadsheet for Y words from The Viking and the Redman, also sent example of how to do the deciphering with the Drokvaett format to Rob.
(Mike)
Today I explored
evidence that suggests that Europeans had originally migrated to the eastern
side of North America during an Ice Age 20,000 years ago. The key evidence for
this theory is the similarities between the tools that were used by the
cultures of the Eastern Native Americans and those of the Western Europeans of
about 20,000 years ago.
A book that
supplies key evidence to the European migration theory is:
“Across Atlantic Ice: The Origins of America’s Clovis Culture” by Dennis Stanford and Bruce Bradley.
“Across Atlantic Ice: The Origins of America’s Clovis Culture” by Dennis Stanford and Bruce Bradley.
According to www.ucpress.edu,
this publication is all about:
“Who were the first humans to inhabit North America? According to the now familiar story, mammal hunters entered the continent some 12,000 years ago via a land bridge that spanned the Bering Sea. The presence of these early New World people was established by distinctive stone tools belonging to the Clovis culture. But are the Clovis tools Asian in origin? Drawing from original archaeological analysis, paleoclimatic research, and genetic studies, noted archaeologists Dennis J. Stanford and Bruce A. Bradley challenge the old narrative and, in the process, counter traditional—and often subjective—approaches to archaeological testing for historical relatedness. The authors apply rigorous scholarship to a hypothesis that places the technological antecedents of Clovis in Europe and posits that the first Americans crossed the Atlantic by boat and arrived earlier than previously thought. Supplying archaeological and oceanographic evidence to support this assertion, the book dismantles the old paradigm while persuasively linking Clovis technology with the culture of the Solutrean people who occupied France and Spain more than 20,000 years ago.”
“Who were the first humans to inhabit North America? According to the now familiar story, mammal hunters entered the continent some 12,000 years ago via a land bridge that spanned the Bering Sea. The presence of these early New World people was established by distinctive stone tools belonging to the Clovis culture. But are the Clovis tools Asian in origin? Drawing from original archaeological analysis, paleoclimatic research, and genetic studies, noted archaeologists Dennis J. Stanford and Bruce A. Bradley challenge the old narrative and, in the process, counter traditional—and often subjective—approaches to archaeological testing for historical relatedness. The authors apply rigorous scholarship to a hypothesis that places the technological antecedents of Clovis in Europe and posits that the first Americans crossed the Atlantic by boat and arrived earlier than previously thought. Supplying archaeological and oceanographic evidence to support this assertion, the book dismantles the old paradigm while persuasively linking Clovis technology with the culture of the Solutrean people who occupied France and Spain more than 20,000 years ago.”
I came across an
interesting lecture by Dr. Dennis Stanford, Curator of Archaeology and Chairman
of the Anthropology Department at the National Museum of Natural History,
Smithsonian Institution. In his lecture, Stanford explains his theory on why he
believes that Europeans had possibly came to North America 20,000 years ago.
I
also came across a documentary that defines reenacts the European migration to
North America.
My
theory is simple. If evidence suggests that Europeans had migrated to North
America 20,000 years ago, then it is quite possible that Europeans had also
migrated during the era of the Vikings.
Good start guys.
ReplyDeleteMike, I had not considered your simple hypothesis before. Your logic is sound. If the ancient migration worked, than the Little Ice Age migration might have worked.
I have not studied the ancient migration as much as I should have, perhaps, because my simple logic says "The winds and the currents flow from America to Europe. Western Europe has type O blood. All the Americans had type O blood. So, I believe the actual ancient migration went from America to Europe.
The Lenape Migration was, perhaps, different, The Lenape were walking on ice with a specific destination in mind. They wanted to get to Wynland of West. (Western MN) The prevailing winds may have been against them until they made it to the mouth of the Nelson River, but there would have been times to walk and times to sit and wait for the wind to die down.
The Greenland Lenape were not wandering around aimlessly. They knew where they were and where they had to go for survival.