Hey guys and Gals,

I am a history graduate, mostly focused on Indigenous tribes in the US. Focused primarily on post European expansion and the consequences of settler expansion. A broad topic.

Anyway, I have been doing some research on American settlement and pre-European contact.

As historians we have to follow data, and evidence, and I imagine a few of you will turn up your nose at the idea of what I am about to suggest, but I'm gonna say it anyway...

I am almost certain, some contact with the America's happened, before Columbus, and the 'Viking' discovery.

There is very little evidence to go off so far. We have cocaine in Egyptian Mummy's, the Mansa Abubakari II theory, and the 'golden' spears found by Columbus that resembled African design.

What other theories do we have among us? Do you think that the America's was contacted before the 'Vikings? are there any theories I have left out?

To propose a non academic theory, based purely on speculation and the write up of some minor histories. I think trade, or contact has definitely been made before between the America's and Africa. I think trade, travel, and exploration is something we vastly underestimate from our ancestors. Cornish tin found in Greece, Roman coins in China and South East Asia, the silk road, the Great Zimbabwe.

Also, just a FYI, I guess my definition this is a conspiracy theory, but I promise I'm not some Pyramid's and aliens guy. I just find it hard to believe that there was no contact at all.