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A series of diseases, plundering by Mediterranean pirates on the west African coasts, and the destruction of the last Murrayan communities by Amurians in the South American east shores stopped the more or less active exchange between Africa and South America ca 2200 BP. The contact between the Old and the New World was restablihed in the North Atlantic when Laurentian sailors met Scandinavian ones in Iceland, 1050 BP.