Re: U of South Carolina Releases Topper Radiocarbon Dates

From: Erik Hammerstad (egeha.is.all.you.need_at_start.no)
Date: 11/26/04 

Date: Fri, 26 Nov 2004 23:57:10 +0100

Doug Weller wrote:

> And so on -- Norse coin, which if it's the one I think of is clearly
> genuine and part of the accepted proof of Norse visits to North America.
>
A case has been made for it not to be proof of Norse visits to NA:
http://faculty.virginia.edu/phantom/norsepenny.pdf

As usual the basic problem is that while the artifact is genuinely
Norse, there is no way of proving that it was brought to the NA
post Columbus.

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