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Discovery World
Discovery World
Discovery World
Discovery World
Discovery World
Discovery World
Discovery World
Discovery World
Discovery World
Discovery World
Discovery World
Discovery World
Discovery World
Discovery World
Discovery World
Discovery World
Discovery World
Discovery World
Discovery World
Discovery World
Discovery World
Discovery World
Discovery World
Discovery World
Discovery World
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+1 414-765-9966

Hours:
Sunday10am - 5pm
Monday9am - 4pm
Tuesday9am - 4pm
Wednesday9am - 4pm
Thursday9am - 4pm
Friday9am - 4pm
Saturday10am - 5pm


Pre-Columbian trans-oceanic contact theories relate to visits or interactions with the Americas and/or indigenous peoples of the Americas by people from Africa, Asia, Europe, or Oceania before Columbus's first voyage to the Caribbean in 1492. Such contact is generally accepted in prehistory, but has been hotly debated in the historic period.Two historical cases of pre-Columbian contact are accepted amongst the scientific and scholarly mainstream. Successful explorations led to Norse settlement of Greenland and the L'Anse aux Meadows settlement in Newfoundland some 500 years before Columbus. The scientific and scholarly responses to other post-prehistory, pre-Columbian contact claims have varied. Some such contact claims are examined in reputable peer-reviewed sources. Other contact claims, typically based on circumstantial and ambiguous interpretations of archaeological finds, cultural comparisons, comments in historical documents, and narrative accounts, have been dismissed as fringe science or pseudoarcheology.
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