From: Ad 

John Beamish wrote:
> Late arrivals.
>
> Try L'Anse aux Meadows c. 1000.
>

Before that in all probability.

In the last ice age there was a solid sea-ice icesheet fro europe to North
America & people paddled along the edge of it in canoes. It's how come
the clover point is thought to have come to the Americas according to the
"Solutrean hypothesis"

e.g.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solutrean_hypothesis

>
> (Oh, and to quote the indubitably authoritative Wikipedia, "The climate
> in Newfoundland then was significantly warmer than it is today."
>

How nice for the Newfounders....

Adam


> On Tue, 22 May 2007 00:55:18 -0400, Robert Comer
>  wrote:
>
>> So when did it start, seems to me it was in 1492...
>>
>

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