[SunkenCiv]

this may be a dead link, but should be available on the Wayback Machine.

The sign of the ancient mariner
by Henry Gee

M. J. Morwood of the University of New England, New South Wales and colleagues discuss stone tools and bones of fossil elephants and other animals, buried between 800,000 and 900,000 years ago on Flores, in the Lesser Sunda island chain east of Java. When sea-level was at its lowest, during the last Ice Age, much of what is now Indonesia was joined up into a single landmass, which included Borneo, Java and Sumatra. Even then, Flores was separated by three deep-water channels, the narrowest 19 km wide. Suggestions that stone tools on Flores and elsewhere in offshore Indonesia could represent a very early phase of human navigational ability have usually met with disbelief. This age suggests that the makers of the tools were Homo erectus, because, as far as we know, there were no members of Homo sapiens in Asia at the time. Not only that, these creatures would have to have crossed the open sea not once, but three times. [And] in Germany 400,000-year-old wooden spears, perfectly shaped for throwing [were left by] people that lived long before modern humans or even Neanderthals came to northern Europe.

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[Vaquero]

also the Mediterranean has dried up completely...though the last time was 5 million years or so ago....this sea has filled and evaporated many times since the sea was formed....

[wolfcreek]

They must of been quite adventurous to shove off into the sea with little knowledge of what lay ahead.

Guessing there was an abundance of sea monsters.

[hennie pennie]

*bookmark*

[camle]

so the mere presence of axes indicates boat building? isn't it possible, in fact more likely, that the axes facilitated chopping wood for fires, or even house construction?

[wildbill]

The idea of Cheetah on a raft seems a little strange. It would take tools and ropemaking skills to make a raft. I’m not buying into Cheetah on a tree trunk sailing merrily away into the void.

On the other hand, there are theories that the Med basin was once dry land until the Atlantic broke through at Gibralter and the islands like Crete and Malta were once mountains within the basin.

Hominids walking up to some highlands seems a little more feasible 100 million years ago.

[Dark Wing]

FYI

[SunkenCiv]

Homo Erectus Crosses The Open Ocean
Environmental Graffiti | 06 May 2009 | Environmental Graffiti
Posted on 05/15/2009 7:53:17 AM PDT by BGHater
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/2251596/posts

[MattinNJ]

You should listen to Joe Rogan’s podcast with Randall Carslon and Graham Hancock. I think it’s podcast 725