Fact Check: WHAT YEAR DID HE ARRIVE TO AMERICA

Never miss an episode: Subscribe ... ... Welcome back to the Nature Podcast. This week, evidence of humans in the Americas 30,000 years ago…...

In the 1970s, college students in archaeology such as myself learned that the first human beings to arrive in North America had come over a land bridge from Asia and Siberia approximately 13,000 to 13,500 years ago.

Columbus would make three subsequent voyages and would die believing he had found a new route to India and Asia, and not, in fact, the gateway to North and South America. Because the United States evolved out of British colonization rather than the Spanish claims of Columbus and his successors, the United States for many years did not celebrate Columbus’ “discovery,” although ceremonies were held on the 300th and 400th anniversaries of his first landing.

Sections: What Came To Be Called “America” | Mediterranean World | Christopher Columbus | Inventing America | Europe Claims America | Epilogue · By 1492 people had lived in the Western Hemisphere for tens of thousands of years.

Around the year 1000 A.D., the Viking explorer Leif Erikson, son of Erik the Red, sailed to a place he called "Vinland," in what is now the Canadian province of Newfoundland. Erikson and his crew didn't stay long — only a few years — before ...

Simon Jenkins: A map supporting claims that the admiral Zheng He reached the New World in the early 15th century is plainly a hoax

The windows of favorable environmental ... genetic evidence suggests the first humans arrived in North America between approximately 25,000 and 16,000 years ago....

Additionally, there is evidence that Norse explorers had reached North America centuries before Columbus, with the Viking explorer Leif Erikson leading a settlement in Newfoundland around the year 1000.

He instead estimates that the death ... the arrival of Hernán Cortés in 1519. According to some estimates, smallpox had an 80–90% fatality rate in Native American populations. The natives had no acquired immunity to these new diseases and suffered high fatalities. There is also evidence that they ...