On: Evidence for European presence in the Americas in ...

[s1artibartfast]

Weird take. I have never read any claims that Europeans were in N America before the indigenous.

Even with visiting in 1000 AD, the "indians" have 10-20,000 year lead.

[cmrdporcupine → s1artibartfast]

There's all the nonsense that happened around Kennewick man and all the controversies around it. Various bits of bad physical anthropology that tried to identify the skull as "Caucasoid", some dispute over the control over the remains, and in the end DNA testing showed continuity with today's indigenous populations; but white nationalists tried to seize on its initial description as "Caucasoid" as some evidence of "Caucasian" presence in the new world long ago.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kennewick_Man#Race_factor

'The New York Times reported "White supremacist groups are among those who used Kennewick Man to claim that Caucasians came to America well before Native Americans." Additionally, Asatru Folk Assembly, a racialist neopagan organization, sued to have the bones genetically tested before it was adjudicated that Kennewick Man was an ancestor of present-day Native Americans.'

Also the whole "Solutrean hypothesis", also disproven/discredited, but living on among the conspirational and often racist.

[s1artibartfast → cmrdporcupine]

Thanks for sharing the examples, certainly an interesting read.

However, I don't think interest in the Viking archeology from the last 2,000 years can be written off in the same vein.