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Archaeology: Azores islands reached 700 years earlier than thought
The lake contained in the collapsed caldera of Corvo Island within the Azores Santiago Giralt
Certainly one of historical past’s biggest journeys has been uncovered. Folks arrived on the islands of the Azores, within the central Atlantic, about 700 years sooner than thought.
“We are able to clearly establish proof of early human influence on the islands earlier than the official colonisation by the Portuguese,” says Pedro Raposeiro on the Analysis Centre in Biodiversity and Genetic Sources in Ponta Delgada on São Miguel Island within the Azores.
It isn’t sure who the primary colonists have been, however there’s proof that it was …