2,500 years old JAPANESE boat Found in Mexico ?

[jeff of pa]

A. von Wuthenau, a specialist in Precolumbian art, at the University of the Americas in Mexico City, has long been a champion of ancient contacts between the New World and Africa, the Orient, and the Mediterranean region. For example, his book Unexpected Faces in Ancient America contains hundreds of photographs of Precolumbian figurines and other artwork showing facial features typical of the Old World and Asia. His latest find consists of a terra cotta model of an ancient sailing ship manned by figurines of ten oarsmen, all with striking Japanese features. The model boat is one foot long; the oarsmen, two inches high. It was discovered at a burial site in the Guerrero region of Mexico. Von Wuthenau has tentatively dated the boat as 2,500 years old

http://www.science-frontiers.com/sf043/sf043p03.htm

 

[piegrande]

Several years ago, I read on the Internet that linguists had taken recordings of the Zapoteca language to Japan, and the Japanese understood 25% of it. I have no personal knowledge of this. Something I read.

That would be a very long time. I know where there are indigenous towns five miles apart. Before Cortes they spoke the same language. After Cortes, they had to speak the national language. Today, their pronunciation has changed so much they cannot communicate with those living five miles away. Speaking it only in their own home the pronunciation changed so much they don't understand each other.

 

[Mackaydon]

And in the book "1491" you can read of the Chinese trading with Mexico --before Columbus.
Don........