Yeah, the graphics are super. But it doesn’t tell the whole story.
Forty thousand years ago humans migrated into Australia. So, how did they get there without boats?
Australia hasn’t been attached to any Asian continental landmasses nor to the large island to its north, modern day New Guinea. Yet humans and domesticated dogs arrived in Australia 40,000 years ago. They obviously arrived on boats of some kind.
During these past 40,000 years the sea level world-wide was between 600 to 400 feet lower than it is today. Look on any detailed submarine topographical map (one labeled with depths) and you’ll note how much of the mid-Atlantic ridge and other seamounts would have been bare land. An astonishingly large number.
If humans could have made it to Australia by boat 40,000 years ago, why not island hop across the Atlantic from west Africa? Is that why the boats made of reeds used on Lake Titicaca look almost identical to boats made of reeds depicted in ancient Egyptian tombs?
It is also a minor peeve of mine that Archeologists have traditionally greatly discounted the possibility that humans could have followed the coast (not the interrior) around the Pacific. This area would likey have been very cold and very dry, thus not supporting much in they way of life (unless you ascribe to the theory of polar shift).
