Allan Shumaker Wrote:
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--to this day
> there is a plaque at Fort Morgan on the East Coast
> of Mobile Bay commemorating the Welsh landing by
> Madoc in 1171!
Incorrect ... this was taken down quite some time ago. 1519 would be the map made by Alonso Alvarez de Pineda who was the first European man to set foot in Alabama. He was followed by DeSoto in 1540.
Kat
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Archaeological Fantasies:
How pseudoarchaeology misrepresents the past and misleads the public
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Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 09/29/2005 05:37PM by Katherine Reece.