Who discovered America?

[susieroe]

New discoveries on the east coast seem to indicate Europeans were there first:

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/new-evidence-suggests-s

No names mentioned  , but they do have DNA markers...

[Ray T]

Would those be this week's, latest, once in a lifetime, buy it now, final offer, 25% off, Ancestry DNA markers?

[pinefamily]

You get those final offers too, Ray? I get them a few times a month, if not weekly.

[susieroe]

Would those be this week's, latest, once in a lifetime, buy it now, final offer, 25% off, Ancestry DNA markers?

 

[Vance Mead]

There is a theory that there were two voyages west from Bristol in 1480 and 1481. These were recorded by the antiquary William Worcester.

[Redroger]

The question should be which European first discovered America? Then, from the answers given it will be readily apparent that Columbus was a fairly late comer. Portuguese fishermen were fishing for cod off Newfoundland in the early 14th century. Almost 200 years before Columbus!
More graohically there is archaeological evidence that America was colonised from the West at the end of the last Ice Age by Asiatic people who seem to have been the ancestors of the so called Native Americans; well at least they preceed the Europeans by several thousand years. Then, where did the Creoles, and Aztecs and South American people originate? DNA may give the answer to this in time.

[pinefamily]

Originally the theory was that the Asiatic peoples migrated down through the Americas, but I recall reading somewhere that recent DNA testing has shot that down.

[a chesters]

Just to add to the interest, I read a little while ago, that the place where Eric settled had been discovered, and was one heck of a lot further north than the "experts" claimed. A bay was identified in what is now Newfoundland, and evidence of settlement uncovered.

Must try to find the reference, which is a proper checking of the evidence. I know I have it, just where

[gaffy]

... Where all the native Americans came from is also hotly debated.
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/dna-search-first-americans-links-amazon-indigenous-australians-180955976/

That was my understanding as well:
http://www.bbc.com/earth/story/20170328-the-first-people-who-populated-the-americas