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[brunians at brunians.org]

That and lots of other stuff. Cocaine and nicotine in Egyptian mummies,
Roman sculptures in Mexico etc.


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> brunians wrote:
>> You don't think that there was at least occasional transatlantic
>> contact?
>> Seriously?
> Wolfe once offered evidence for his theory in an interview
> (http://members.bellatlantic.net/~vze2tmhh/wolfejbj.html):
>
> If you read the anthropologists about the Indians they will tell you the
> Indians did not have the wheel. But they did. The thing is that the only
> wheel that they had was tiny little wheeled toys. A little animal on a
> little platform and four wheels. Obviously they did not evolve the
> wheel. They got it from somebody who had already evolved. And this
> somebody could not put a cart or chariot aboard the ship. It took up too
> much room. You could put a hundred little wheeled toys aboard the ship
> and trade them. Right? Well the Indians had never seen anything, well,
> gee that is neat. You can pull it along and it follows the kid around
> and that is a nice trade item and you can carry hundreds of them aboard
> your Phoenecian ship. And the Indians never got it any farther. They
> were not able to look at the wheeled toy and say why we can't we make a
> big one like that? They never took that step.
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