same old cultural filter - vikings are 'savages' and 'godless pagans' etc. so they didn't do sh*t.
in north america there have been bones discovered that are ~40,000 years old, that look like the ploynesian ainoo people in japan, who settled much of the planet riding major currents in stupid little reed boats that probably had a low survival rate - as one example of proof of people before the land bridge asians.
i just don't see all these theories as mutually exclusive - people came here, died out due to climate technology etc., and others came later - what's the big deal, we have to ignore all the land bridge proof now that it doesn't look like they were the first north americans? what horse sh*t.
EDIT: rant is in wrong thread, oops!!!
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