SWINGERS
Intramural softball competition sometimes gets hot and heavy at the diamond next to
the Grove Theater. Here a “Compadres” batter hits one to center field in a game against
the “Statistics” this week. Intramural contests will continue the rest of the summer
session, Ray Fletcher, director of intramurals says.
Carter Says Everybody,
Not Columbus, Discoverer
Dr. George F. Carter, Texas
A&M geographer, doesn’t buy
the theory that Cblumbus dis
covered America. He says Christ
opher missed the boat about 4,-
500 years.
“Everybody discovered Ameri
ca,” Dr. Carter contends.
He cites evidence that the Ro
mans. Irishmen and Norse visit
ed America via the Atlantic long
before Columbus, and the Chi
nese, Japanese and Hindus cross
ed the Pacific ages before the
Europeans ventured over.
“The best you can say for
Columbus is that he re-discovered
America,” observes Carter, who
holds the rank of distinguished
professor of geography and is
author of the widely used col
lege textbook, “Man 1 a n d the
Land.”
Dr. Carter believes the Span
ish of Cblumbus’ era simply for
got that the Mediterranean peo
ple had previously been to the
“New World.”
He also suspects that Chris
was cheating—that he knew the
Americas existed all the time.
“The chances are good that he
had been here before his so-
called 1942 discovery,” Dr. Car
ter points out.
He notes that the famous voy
ager had earlier written of en
countering 60-foot variations in
high and low tide on one of his
trips. The only place in the world
with such variations is the Bay
of Fundy in Newfoundland, the
professor concludes.
Carter and a handful of au
thorities in other fields have had
a running battle for several
years with anthropologists over
the question of pre-Columbian
voyages to America.
Most anthropologists believe
“our” Indians came here by cross
ing the Bering Straits about 10,-
000 B. C. and that everything
they did afterwards was on their
own, Dr. Carter points out.
He contends, however, the In
dians came over much before
10,000 B. C. While they did some
things on their own, he adds,
people began to cross the world’s
great oceans about 3,000 B. C.,
bringing with them all kinds of
ideas.
He says there is no question
that the Norse visited America
around 1,000 A. D., bringing with
them their wives who had ba
bies in America.
“The Norse tell you in their
sagas that the Irish beat them
to America,” he continues, “and
the Romans tell you they knew
about Iceland and Greenland—
and when you are in Greenland,
you can see America.”
A pot of Roman coins of the
125-175 A. D. era has been found
in Iceland, relates the professor.
Carter, who received a B. A. de
gree in anthropology but switched
to geography for his Ph.D. at
the University of California, cites
an array of other pre-Columbian
evidence, ranging from plants to
art, architecture and a radioac
tive dating system.
Carter notes the major break
through in the theory of pre-
Columbian voyages to America I
came within the past five years
when some buried pottery was
discovered in Ecuador. Carbon
14 dating (a radio-active analy
sis technique) established its cre
ation at 2500-3000 B. C.
“With its distinct appearance,”
Carter quips, “it might as well
have been stamped ‘Made in Ja
pan’.”
DeWare Field House and the
handball courts housed there have
been closed for a two-week per
iod beginning this past Monday.
Boundary lines on the main
floor of DeWare and the hand
ball courts are currently being
repainted and a floor finish will
be applied. Department of Health
and Physical Education officials
said the finish takes at least two
weeks to harden sufficiently for
play.
IN STRIDE
A statistics major is put out at first by a “Compadres” team member in intramural com
petition. Dorm 19 has won the bowling: segment in the summer program, results of other
sports will not be out until later this month.
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