Re: Early Atlantic crossing

--- In cybalist@..., "anthonyappleyard" <MCLSSAA2@...> wrote:

> When people move, they take their languages with them. It used to

be

> taken as dogma that when men moved from Siberia across the dry bed

of

> the Bering Sraits to Alaska in the Ice Age, they could get no

further

> until the ice melted back enough to make a corridor between the
> northern ice and the Rocky Mountains ice. But now I heard of a

theory

> that the Solutrean people of southwest France lived like Eskimos do
> now and crossed the Atlantic to America in Eskimo-type skin boats
> about 15000BC living by spearing seals etc and skirting the edge of
> the icepack and hauling out onto ice floes when they needed a rest.

I believe Guiness' says the longest range of sight is the view
ofIcelnd from the highest peak on the Faroe islands. That can't have
changed much.

Torsten