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The Atlantic
Conference 2009
On-line
Now
Pre-Conference Presentations available on-demand
Full Schedule
We all know the rhyme "In Fourteen Hundred and ninety two,
Columbus sailed the Ocean Blue", and all that follows from that.
In 1992, on the 500th Anniversary of Columbus voyage a Native
American response in a song was "Columbus didn't discover
America, it wasn't lost, it was always there." Our view of the
Continent called America is very Eurocentric. We talk of the New
World, but it was only "New" to Europeans. We do not now know
what it was called before because we have replaced most of the
original names, used by the "Native Americans" (even that term
is incorrect, but better than "Indian" which followed from
Columbus not actually knowing where he had arrived). They have
always told a different story and it has been neglected too
long. DNA testing is starting to show that there are ancient
links across the oceans, and archaeology is dispelling long held
historical "fact".
"The Atlantic Conference is a not-for-profit company whose
sole aim is to further the study of early trans-Atlantic
contact. This year, the planning is being handled by Rick Osmon
and Steve St. Clair.
Since the 1933 discovery of a flint spearhead unearthed at
Clovis, New Mexico, scientists, academics and just about
everyone else became entrenched in the idea that North Americans
arrived on this continent exclusively via the Bering Strait land
bridge. The mammoth skeleton that lay beside the Clovis point
was carbon-dated to 11,500 years ago and there seemed to be no
other find that pointed to older human habitation in North
America. This theory became so accepted that archaeologists
stopped looking for older artifacts.
The Atlantic Conference is a
gathering of experts who will share information between a
variety of disciplines regarding early trans-Atlantic contact.
It will be a “cross pollination” of sorts. For instance, we
suspect than a Maritime Historian might get new ideas about
research if he or she gets access to the research of those
archaeologists who found that 1,000 year old skeleton in Norway.
Some Linguists might advance their work by learning more from
native tribal leaders, etc."
Register for an interactive Blog Radio Account (free) to talk to
the participants on-line.
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