Two more examples, both in "The Year of the Ransom":
Time Patrolmen apprehending Castelar above the siege of Cuzco caused the reports of apparitions of the Virgin and of St James on the battlefield;
Stephen Tamberly made the Valdivia ware.
(We had already been told of Tamberly's interest in archaic Japan.)
One more example from "The Only Game In Town":
the Mongol Noyon and the Confucian scholar stranded in North America helped to create the potlach culture.
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Kaor, Paul!
I looked up the link to the Valdivia culture and the arguments against Jomon era Japanese fishers being blown off course so far away to what is now Ecuador seems convincing. Independent development of cultures rather than diffusions seems to be the most likely reason for these "similarities." Of course Anderson was having Stephen Tamberly deliberately introducing Jomon features into the pottery he made as a means of attracting attention by time travelers.
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