Chinese in the Pre-Columbian New World
"Other researchers have argued that the Olmec civilization came into existence with the help of Chinese refugees, particularly at the end of the Shang dynasty. In 1975, Betty Meggers of the Smithsonian Institution argued that the Olmec civilization originated due to Shang Chinese influences around 1200 BCE. In a 1996 book, Mike Xu, with the aid of Chen Hanping, claimed that celts from La Venta bear Chinese characters. These claims are unsupported by mainstream Mesoamerican researchers.
Other claims have been made for early Chinese contact with North America."
Other claims have been made for early Chinese contact with North America."
- Text from Wikipedia entry for "Pre-Columbian trans-oceanic contact theories" (accessed 11/10/2015) [links added]
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Blog Posts and Articles
- "Claim: Ancient Chinese Dagger Found in Georgia" (Jason Colavito, 7/2/2015)
- "Fusang and the Ancient Egyptian Buddhists of America" (Jason Colavito, 3/5/2014)
- "When the Chinese Didn’t Discover America – Fusang" (ArchyFantasies, 2/26/2014)
- "When the Chinese Didn’t Discover America" (ArchyFantasies, 1/20/2014)
- "Brief Notice: Gavin Menzies's New Claim of a Pre-Columbian Chinese Map of America" (Jason Colavito, 10/9/2013)
- "Thinking about Ancient Chinese, Tibetan, and Egyptian Voyages to the Grand Canyon" (Jason Colavito, 2/1/2013)
- "Did the Chinese Discover America?" (Michael Heiser, 9/15/2009)
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