The Discovery that Revealed Ancient Humans Navigated the Seas 130,000 Years Ago [2013]

Ancient Origins ^ | 25 October 2013 | John Black

[Sawdring]

Are you kidding? Your posts are one of the reasons I stick around here. I didn't know the exact date you quit posting but I knew you had quit. I think I even tried to look you up on another forum but the forum was lackluster if I remember right.

I enjoy these little time machine posts you ping everyone to. I like to see if the poster is still posting, quit posting or got banned. Anyhow, keep up the good work!

[Sawdring]

Human remains 800K years old have been found on Crete?

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks!

[SunkenCiv]

Flores Island (home of the "hobbits") has 800K old stone tools, and during that interval and then some, the island has not been connected to the mainland.

• Controversial footprint discovery suggests human-like creatures may have roamed Crete [2017]

  The sediments that contain the footprints suggest they probably date to the period immediately before this, at about 5.7m years.

[ApplegateRanch]

Never said they walked. Said perhaps 'island hopped' when water was lower, so distances were shorter, but still navigating, not walking or swimming. .

[SunkenCiv]

It's too bad vessels had to have been made of pretty perishable materials.

[Sawdring]

Here is one about river navigation: https://curiosmos.com/striking-discovery-3-ancient-roman-shipwrecks-found-buried-in-siberia/

[Sawdring]

I’ll let you find the misprint.

[SunkenCiv]

That would have been quite a discovery! :^)

[17th Miss Regt]

Why is this so hard to believe? After all, black Egyptians were taking regular commuter trips between Thebes and the upper Nile area on airplanes that used wind power about five thousand years ago! (I saw this in The Final Call.)