https://noirg.org/articles/the-black-presence-in-america-before-columbus/
“The African presence is proven by stone heads, terra cottas, skeletons, artifacts, techniques and inscriptions, by oral traditions and documented history, by botanical, linguistic and cultural data. When the feasibility of African crossings of the Atlantic was not proven and the archaeological evidence undated and unknown, we could in all innocence ignore the most startling of coincidences. This is no longer possible. The case for African contacts with pre-Columbian America, in spite of a number of understandable gaps and a few minor elements of contestable data, is no longer based on the fanciful conjecture and speculation of romantics. It is grounded now upon an overwhelming and growing body of reliable witnesses.”
–Ivan Van Sertima, They Came Before Columbus.
They Came Before Columbus by the late Rutgers University professor, Ivan Van Sertima,
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivan_Van_Sertima
debunking of his book....
https://www.unl.edu/rhames/courses/current/vansertima.pdf
So the debunking is good but it is not an either/or argument. It could be both!
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