I don't think it was Viking. Before the amazing boats, they had thick, heavy, and generally crappy boats. The way the appeared quickly and out of the blue does remind me of the viking attack on Lindisfarne, but it's way too early for any viking action.
*shrug*
No idea really to be honest, but that's why I gave it the caveat of "Proto-".
Now here's the thing, history credits Amerigo Vespuchi with discovering the North American mainland.
Now, there's strong evidence to show that the Vikings came to America 500 years before that. An anchor bolt known to be of Viking origin, the sort they used to moor their boats with was found on the Maine sea coast.
However, how does one discover a new land when there are already people here? Natives settled the Americas starting about 12,000 years ago across the Bering Land Bridge.
Now hold on a second. There's more evidence that shows the possibility that proto northern Europeans might have come to the Americas as far back as 20k to 22k years ago. 10k before the natives.
Nothing concrete, but of a nature that suggests "It's worthy of further investigation."
To be honest, little surprises me when it comes to Anthropology discoveries.
We are pretty sure that Vikings discovered America first. I can believe the natives coming through the bering land bridge, all evidence suggests that's what happened. The viking discovery of Canada/ America has a lot of evidence to support it, and what's more, it happened in the thick of the viking age. It was discovered by Icelandic/ Norwegian vikings multiple times. Settlements as far south as L'anse aux meadows are proven, and viking maps match up.
I think the sea peoples came from the aegean region, or really anywhere is southern europe.
Here's a good timeline explaining what was going on in scandinavia in 1178 b.c., which I think rules out the possibility of proto vikings.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Scandinavia
I read through it and while discoveries concerning the Nordic Bronze age would have allowed this as a possibility, it is unlikely.
While it is believed that seafaring was an important aspect to the culture, theres no evidence to indicate that they were traveling that far afield. That came much later.
You are probably correct that they came from another region around the perimeter of the Mediterranean.
Edit: youa re correr. I misread.
Edit again: Lagging computer. *you are correct, I misread
No idea really to be honest, but that's why I gave it the caveat of "Proto-".
Now here's the thing, history credits Amerigo Vespuchi with discovering the North American mainland.
Now, there's strong evidence to show that the Vikings came to America 500 years before that. An anchor bolt known to be of Viking origin, the sort they used to moor their boats with was found on the Maine sea coast.
However, how does one discover a new land when there are already people here? Natives settled the Americas starting about 12,000 years ago across the Bering Land Bridge.
Now hold on a second. There's more evidence that shows the possibility that proto northern Europeans might have come to the Americas as far back as 20k to 22k years ago. 10k before the natives.
Nothing concrete, but of a nature that suggests "It's worthy of further investigation."
To be honest, little surprises me when it comes to Anthropology discoveries.
I think the sea peoples came from the aegean region, or really anywhere is southern europe.
Here's a good timeline explaining what was going on in scandinavia in 1178 b.c., which I think rules out the possibility of proto vikings.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Scandinavia
I read through it and while discoveries concerning the Nordic Bronze age would have allowed this as a possibility, it is unlikely.
While it is believed that seafaring was an important aspect to the culture, theres no evidence to indicate that they were traveling that far afield. That came much later.
You are probably correct that they came from another region around the perimeter of the Mediterranean.