I get it now. Clovis was a culture, not a population. It lasted about 400 years. The prevailing technology changed.
Christopher Columbus was a fraud
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It's probably important to remember that the ancestry of native Americans may be complicated. It's possible that pre-Clovis culture traveled down the coast, then radiated from there, and then some time later, Clovis culture traveled the inland corridor route, and then these people - already distantly related, anyway - intermingled. So I'm not trying to say that there was only one founding event; there may have been several. But I do think the common understanding now is that the people associated with Clovis interbred with the pre-Clovis people, rather than replaced them outright. And, again, both the pre-Clovis and Clovis people were probably descended from the same stock of Siberian peoples who settled in Beringia ~20K years ago.
In between the time the Vikings were in Greenland and Columbus sailed to the New World, though, the Vikings also left their mark on all of Europe, so the "Western world" that discovered America, as you say, also had strong Norse influences.
Viking exploration of North America was carried out by residents of Greenland. They all disappeared about the time Columbus was making his voyage.
I have read and seen documentaries on people reaching America before Columbus. He may have been the first commissioned European to return and document the new world.
Iceland and Greenland were known long before Columbus was born. It isn't hard to imagine visitors to northern NA. They may have sailed south along the coast and known about our east coast.
There are some that claim evidence that the Knights Templar found NA while fleeing Europe. Some left France in ships and likely landed in Scotland. Did they learn of lands to the west and continue their travel and end up in NA via Greenland or Iceland? It is fun to speculate, but unlikely The vikings were believed to have known about NA. Who else found it but never returned to document their expeditions?
. . . so Columbus did meet up with Asians . . . just not in Asia.
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