I once read of some archaeological work going on in the Falklands. Were these islands inhabited? Hard to see why, being so cold and bleak. I belive the europens established settlements around AD 1700-was there any earlier habitation?
Xema
April 11, 2009, 8:48pm
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Here’s Wiki on the subject :
The Falkland Islands were uninhabited when discovered by Europeans, but recent discoveries of arrowheads in Lafonia (on the southern half of East Falkland) as well as the remains of a wooden canoe provide strong evidence that they had been visited previously, most likely by the Yaghan people of Tierra del Fuego. It has also been suggested that the Falkland Island foxes, or warrahs, found on the islands were introduced by the Yaghans or another Amerindian tribe, bearing as they did a resemblance to the culpeo or Fuegian fox. It is not known if these are evidence of one-way journeys, but there is no known evidence of pre-Columbian buildings or structures.
Note that “cold and bleak” has not alone prevented settlement of lots of other areas of the world (e.g. Tierra del Fuego, Baffin Island, Greenland).