"I thought the viking and irish/scottish (MacDawg) were here
first and brought things like horses and bees"

Sorry, Dee, but before you wonder about A. mellifera aboard a Chinese ship
sailing from Asia to the west coast of North America you've got to show that
people kept A. mellifera in western China/Manchuria. And even after that,
there's got to be some sort of evidence that they brought them here.

And as far as the Vikings and Celts bringing A. mellifera as you say you
thought, you should really be prepared to give some sort of source. Perhaps
you have seen or read of archeological evidence that Greenland or Iceland
(where the Vikings would have left from) had domesticated bees. Then perhaps
some documentation or even oral tradition that they or St. Brendan  or
whoever brought over A. mellifera.

A log fort with a sword hilt made in a certain way could indeed be evidence
that Vikings made it here first, especially if it correlates with other
evidence, but jumping from there to importing bees which eventually made it
to Arizons doesn't cut it.

I'm not sure why one must discount the hundreds of bills of lading, diaries,
requests from colonists, company decisions to send bees etc..which show that
bees were first brought in when historians tell us.

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