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The Discovery that Revealed Ancient Humans Navigated the Seas 130,000 Years Ago - 727Sky - 05-27-2021 Crete has been an Island for an estimated 5 million years so unless there were some amazing swimmers 130,000 years ago, a raft or some type of boat must have been used. Before this discovery it was always the standard 12,000 years ago when the first modern humans arrived. So the question in my mind was it Neanderthals, Homo heidelbergensis or some version of modern humans who were doing the sailing ? The 130,000 years stated in the title is because the tools were found in a strata using stratigraphic analysis . The layer was actually between 130,000 and 190,000 years old estimated by that dating method. Quote:It was a few years ago that a Greek-American archaeological team made a startling discovery – they found the oldest indications of seafaring and navigation in the world, in an area called Plakia on Crete Island in Greece. It is an incredibly important discovery that is given little attention, despite the fact that it reached the top ten discoveries of 2010. Their research is forcing scholars to rethink the maritime capabilities of early human and pre-human cultures.https://www.ancient-origins.net/ancient-technology/ancient-navigation-00963 RE: The Discovery that Revealed Ancient Humans Navigated the Seas 130,000 Years Ago - Bally002 - 05-27-2021 Remarkable. Perhaps a rethink in human history is in the offing if this discovery is deemed authentic in age. Quite a lot to think about. Cheers for the post. Going to look for more info about this. Kind regards, Bally:) RE: The Discovery that Revealed Ancient Humans Navigated the Seas 130,000 Years Ago - Ninurta - 05-27-2021 If it was between 130k and 190k years ago, it could be either Neanderthals or Moderns, depending in which direction they came from. That's a bit late in the timeline for Heidelbergensis, though. In that time frame, Neanderthals owned Europe, Moderns owned from the middle east and parts of Central Asia down through the Maghreb in North Africa and had infiltrated into the northern parts of East Africa from their source in Southwest Asia.. Denisovans had a lock on most of Asia, and there were a few relict populations of H. Erectus in the area of Southeast Asia. Heidelbergensis either went extinct or transformed into Neanderthals and Denisovans around 250k to 300k years ago, and Erectus may have survived in isolated pockets in Southeast Asia up to around 15k years ago. Humans appeared in Australia around 65k years ago, and they had to get there by boat, too in order to cross the Wallace Line. The mention of the prevalence of hand axes leads me to think Neanderthals, coming from the north. Their Acheulean tool kit was heavy on hand axes. . RE: The Discovery that Revealed Ancient Humans Navigated the Seas 130,000 Years Ago - ABNARTY - 05-27-2021 Totally been on board with humans being far more mobile for far longer back then they are given credit for. This just helps demonstrate that. |