In ref............to Chris C.............the Italian who petitioned the Spanish crown for 3 ships...........and discovered America in 1492.........per the story.......................if lived before 1492..........here in the USA...............say NYC area........or any coastal city..............and sailed East........in a raft......a ship.......canoe...........whatever..............the gulf stream would take u north.............towards Europe................



Anthropologists continue to believe, based on linguistic, physical, and genetic evidence, that Polynesia was settled from west to east, migration having begun from the Asian mainland. There are controversial indications, though, of some sort of South American/Polynesian contact, most notably in the fact that the South American sweet potato is served as a dietary staple throughout much of Polynesia. Blood samples taken in 1971 and 2008 from Easter Islanders without any European or other external descent were analysed in a 2011 study, which concluded that the evidence supported some aspects of Heyerdahl's hypothesis.^[15][16][17] This result has been questioned because of the possibility of contamination by South Americans after European contact with the islands.^[18] However, more recent DNA work (after Heyerdahl's death) contradicts the post-European-contact contamination hypothesis, finding the South American DNA sequences to be far older than that.^[19] Heyerdahl had attempted to counter the linguistic argument with the analogy that, guessing the origin of African-Americans, he would prefer to believe that they came from Africa, judging from their skin colour, and not from England, judging from their speech.