Discovery of the Americas (disambiguation)

The discovery of the Americas in modern western history is mainly attributed to the voyages of Christopher Columbus. The discovery of the Americas has also variously been attributed to others, depending on context and definition.

Prehistoric and Ancient history

• Indigenous peoples of the Americas, first people to live in the Americas,
  • Models of migration to the New World,
  • Solutrean hypothesis.

Middle Ages

• Norse colonization of the Americas
  • Gunnbjörn Ulfsson, who first sighted islands off Greenland, probably in the early 10th century,
  • Bjarni Herjólfsson, who sighted mainland North America (Labrador, Canada) around 986,
  • Leif Eriksson, who landed in North America (Newfoundland, Canada) around the year 1000.

Other

• Pre-Columbian trans-oceanic contact, unverified .

See also

• European colonization of the Americas
• History of the Americas