Mihos Wrote:
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> Plants found indigenous to another continent
> · Broadleaf (Grislinia Littoralis) first found in
> Akaroa, New Zealand – five other members of this
> botanical family are found in Chile.

Invalid evidence.... MANY botanical "families" are found on more than one continent. Heck, just look at the chestnut (castenea family).... endemic species were found in North America, Europe, and Asia.

If human contact had spread Broadleaf, you'd have the EXACT same species in both places, not just members of the same botanical family!

> 14. Animals found indigenous to another continent
> · Asiatic chickens found which cannot fly and
> therefore must have been brought over by ship

Nope, there is no hard evidence of Asiatic chickens in the pre-Columbian Americas. Look back in old threads on Ma'at, or ask Doug Weller (it's been done to death on forums he's been heavily involved in).

Archaeological claims all either turn out to be POORLY dated (& only marginally pre-Columbian at best) or cases of misidentification (for example, one previous cite for domestic chickens in a pre-Columbian Pueblo Indian site turned out to be no such thing.... it was of an unidentified fowl.... and it was noted that the native Prairie chicken species have skeletons indistinguishable from that of the Asian jungle fowl & it's domesticates).

> · The armadillo (unique to S. America) is featured
> in China’s Illustrated Record of Strange
> Countries, 1430

Cites? Photos are even better.

Or are you depending on Gavin Menzies for the claim?

> · Naitha cattle to La Plata (Banda oriental breed)
> – Jesuit history, Memoires sur les Chinois, 1786

Mind explaining what a LATE 18TH CENTURY account of an oriental cattle breed has to do with anything?

> · Mylodon (giant sloth weighing about 200kg unique
> to S.A.) – The Illustrated Record of Strange
> Countries, 1430, depicts such a creature.

Cites? Photos are even better.

Or are you depending on Gavin Menzies for the claim?

> GM has
> photographed a smaller species of the upright
> sloth in Patagonia and believes the Mylodon may
> still exist in the remote unexplored forests of
> Magallanes.

Ah.... you ARE depending on Menzies. Here's a friendly warning.... the man is a total crackpot. His "data" is a mishmash of the fictitious, out of context, and deliberately falsified variety. No reputable scientist grants his claims ANY credibility.

Kenuchelover.