Originally published at: ABOUT THOSE 6,000 YEAR OLD COLUMBIAN SKELETONS...
One of my friends, D.S.G., spotted this story, and I suspect that if you’re like me, you need an occasional bog or story that has nothing to do with the meltdown of our civilization at the hands of our “leadership”. This story does, however, have a civilizational, and historiographical, implication. Indeed, the latter, as I…
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The idea of intentionally venturing out onto the vast open sea in some sort of small canoe/raft etc, especially not knowing where you are going/if there is anything to go to seems beyond frightening. Blown off course during a storm, thousands of miles across the sea maybe fishing a bit to stay alive. How many times did that happen and they not survive? Why would a breeding population (women typically stayed at home) be out on the ocean like that?
MAYBE if there were ancient legends of a land far to the east?
Not disagreeing with the thesis, just speculating about the frightening journey.
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The most famous version of this story comes from Spanish chroniclers. They reported that in the late 14th or early 15th century—before Columbus’s voyage—a canoe with “unknown” people, who looked different from Africans or Europeans, washed ashore on one of the Canary Islands (some versions specify Lanzarote or Fuerteventura).
The descriptions of these people often include details that, to modern readers, sound very much like indigenous Americans:
- They had a reddish or copper-toned skin.
- They spoke an unknown language.
- They had simple technology, like a wooden canoe or a primitive raft.
According to the story, they were captured and eventually assimilated into the local population. Some accounts say the last of them were still alive when the French explorer Jean de Béthencourt conquered the islands in the early 1400s.The story is recorded in several chronicles, which gives it some weight. It wasn’t just a single, vague rumor.
Witkowski’s hypothesis is sustained by the historical documents, the indians had excellent navigation skills. Also very diverse, even in the Caribbean the people in the islands looked different from one another and didn’t speak the same language.
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Constant rewrites of history! Makes all the books of Alan Wilson & Baram Blackett so interesting. Today, do we have history & science? In this current black night the dark ages would blind us, to much blinding light we couldn’t absorb today!
Does it even matter, humanity has devolved so much the adagio of today is “might is right” and too many support it.
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Yet another indicator that Darwin and the descent from primates is simply untrue and that there parallel versions of humanity in play.
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Or that other side of the coin, that all peoples are direct descendants of Noah and his sons , grandsons and so on and forth…
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What about seafaring from Africa?