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[Terry Decker]

Actually the question is "Are there any cultures that someone hasn't tried
to prove arrived in the New World before Columbus?"  (New Guinea tribesmen,
perhaps?)  In most cases, no one has actually proven they did make it, just
that the trip was possible.

The key point about Columbus isn't that he made the journey, but that he
established a permanent European presence in the New World.  Other than the
immigrants who became the American Indians, only the Greenlanders came
close.

Bear


>Was there any culture that *didn't* get to the Americas before Columbus?
>
>- Doc