If it is true that indigenous American peoples did not cast copper or make bronze, then the masses of specialist mining tools found at Lake Superior must have been made by foreigners. The foreigners can only have come by sea. If these seagoing people who sailed to America were not the Minoans, then who were they?
Could Minoan ships have dealt with the rigours of an Atlantic crossing? Minoan sailing gear was planned for the best efficiency. The Thera frescoes show us quite clearly that the Minoans already sailed square-rigged, in the 2nd millennium before Christ’s birth.
Assuming they didn’t make the mistake of sailing into the Sargasso, helped by the current, the Minoans would loop up past the Antilles and on into the Gulf of Mexico.
Further reading:
Dr. Minas Tsikritsis’ new evidence that the Minoans had developed a solar calendar of 365.3 days:
http://londinoupolis.blogspot.com/2011/02/minoans-are-fathers-of-solar-calendar.html
http://www.ansamed.info/en/news/ME.YAK32698.html
J. Walter Graham, ‘The Minoan Unit of Length and Minoan Palace Planning’, American Journal of Archaeology, 64 (1960), JSTOR http://www.jstor.org/pss/501332
Cyrus Gordon, Forgotten Scripts, Basic Books, New York, 1982:
http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2928879-forgotten-scripts
Mark McMenamin’s coin showing map of the ancient world:
http://phoenicia.org/america.html
