N.Y. anthropologist, students conduct first archaeological survey of the abandoned town

I like it and it just goes to show that anything is possible and we shouldn't be so fast to dismiss radicle new ideas.

Hmmm. Wonder what the 'native' American Indians think about that find. JUst goes to show you, someone else was always first. You are only here now.

Napster:

The New York anthropologist believes the relic reveals a lot about the
Polynesian pioneer community that endured for a 28-year period
straddling the turn of the 20th century.

Unless you can make a case for Native Americans not arriving in the western hemisphere until after the turn of the 20th century, you obviously missed something in the clip.

There were, however, accounts of two Chinese expeditions that reached the west coast, one of them long before Europeans reached the east coast.