Before revision: 300px|upright=1.5|Reenactment of a Viking landing in L'Anse aux Meadows Pre-Columbian transoceanic contact theories are speculative theories which propose that possible visits to the Americas, possible interactions with the Indigenous peoples of the Americas —or both— were made by people from Africa, Asia, Europe, or Oceania prior to Christopher Columbus's first voyage to the Caribbean in 1492 (i.e., during any part of the pre-Columbian era) .
After revision: 300px|upright=1.5|Reenactment of a Viking landing in L'Anse aux Meadows Pre-Columbian transoceanic contact theories are speculative theories which propose that possible visits to the Americas, possible interactions with the Indigenous peoples of the Americas , or both, were made by people from elsewhere prior to Christopher Columbus's first voyage to the Caribbean in 1492 .