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Boats! Very Old Boats
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Boats! Very Old Boats
From Haaretz - Archaeology Division


Hominins Were Sailing the Mediterranean Half a Million Years Ago, Study Finds - Archaeology - Haaretz.com

Quote:Hominins Were Sailing the Mediterranean Half a Million Years Ago, Study Finds

The Aegean Islands have been isolated for over 450,000 years, yet evidence of activity, possibly by multiple species of early humans, is all over the place


Quote:There are two problems with figuring out whether hominins really took their first sea trips hundreds of thousands of years ago. Any rafts or canoes made of wood and organic matter have long decomposed. Also, because sea levels were lower during glacial periods, hominins are thought to have reached certain islands when they were connected by land bridges to the mainland. For example, it is believed that humans first reached America by walking over from Asia when the Bering Strait was connected by land (when exactly this crossing happened is a whole other can of worms).


However, there is growing evidence that several areas that were islands for hundreds of thousands or even millions of years were occupied by hominins, who must have braved the waves to get there. This is now argued to be the case with the Aegean Islands, an archipelago of hundreds of islands between Greece and Turkey, including favorite holiday destinations such as Crete, Mikonos and Santorini.
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(12-15-2022, 05:35 PM)Minimalist Wrote: From Haaretz - Archaeology Division


Hominins Were Sailing the Mediterranean Half a Million Years Ago, Study Finds - Archaeology - Haaretz.com

Quote:Hominins Were Sailing the Mediterranean Half a Million Years Ago, Study Finds

The Aegean Islands have been isolated for over 450,000 years, yet evidence of activity, possibly by multiple species of early humans, is all over the place


Quote:There are two problems with figuring out whether hominins really took their first sea trips hundreds of thousands of years ago. Any rafts or canoes made of wood and organic matter have long decomposed. Also, because sea levels were lower during glacial periods, hominins are thought to have reached certain islands when they were connected by land bridges to the mainland. For example, it is believed that humans first reached America by walking over from Asia when the Bering Strait was connected by land (when exactly this crossing happened is a whole other can of worms).


However, there is growing evidence that several areas that were islands for hundreds of thousands or even millions of years were occupied by hominins, who must have braved the waves to get there. This is now argued to be the case with the Aegean Islands, an archipelago of hundreds of islands between Greece and Turkey, including favorite holiday destinations such as Crete, Mikonos and Santorini.

Those islands are rather barren now, few edibles grow naturally there. Back then, who knows? The climate was different.
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(12-15-2022, 11:44 PM)Dom Wrote:
(12-15-2022, 05:35 PM)Minimalist Wrote: From Haaretz - Archaeology Division


Hominins Were Sailing the Mediterranean Half a Million Years Ago, Study Finds - Archaeology - Haaretz.com

Those islands are rather barren now, few edibles grow naturally there. Back then, who knows? The climate was different.

Those islands were likely valuable as stepping-stones in and of themselves, especially in a sea prone to gusts like that.
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