European Settlers in the New World

“As one historian, Professor Norman Totten, has pointed out, it means that 2,500 years of American prehistory must now be transferred to history; for history begins when writing begins. ing that there were numerous pre-Columbian contacts between Europe, Africa, and Asia and the New World going back at least three thousand years. While not all of Fell’s evidence is definitive, he provides strong theories to support many of his findings.

Summary: The inscriptions are written in various European and Mediterranean languages.

Conclusion: Before I read this book, my knowledge of pre-Columbian discoveries of the Americas was limited to what we discussed in class. Phoenician traders came to join with the Egyptian miners and became the Wabanaki tribe, these people wrote in ancient Celtic alphabet called Ogam. They speak of visits from ancient ships and of permanent colonies of Celts, Basques, Libyans, and even Egyptians.

Thesis: This book rounds up a wide range of epigraphic material which he claims demonstrated settlement by a variety of West European and Mediterranean voyager. After reading this book, I have been enlightened to many new things that I have found very intriguing. These findings came to light in 1975 in the course of an archeological survey of New Hampshire and Vermont. This book has greatly increased my knowledge of pre-Columbian peoples in the Americas and I am glad that I was given the opportunity to expand my knowledge on this subject. The book states that three thousand years ago “bands of roving Celtics” crossed the North Atlantic to discover North America. ” You can infer from the writings that the colonists intermarried with the “Amerindians” and so their descendants still live today.