Quote Originally Posted by Bryan View Post
There is absolutely no archaeological evidence that suggests St. Brendan ever made it anywhere in North America. The first evidence of Europeans in the New World is the remains of a Norse settlement at L'Anse aux Meadows in Newfoundland, Canada, dated to around AD 1000.
Where is the archaeological evidence that Columbus made it to the Americas? Or that Darwin made it to the Galapagos, or that anyone has ever circumnavigated the world? Come to think about it, what about asking an archaeologist to prove that man landed on the Moon without telling the archaeologist where to start looking?
Just because there is no archaelogical evidence doesn't mean it did or didn't happen, it may just mean that they were tidy when they got there or archaeologists are looking in the wrong place. Archeology is after all a limited tool and can only really spot signs of relatively large, relatively permanent settlements, and usually only when given a clue as to where to look. Put another way, archaeology can only prove presence, not absence.


I have to say, I love the idea of Pedro Scotti though .