The sign of the ancient marinerM. 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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I wish him success...... Success in his trip, not suicide.
Didn’t Thor Hyerdahl sail an Egyptian style reed boat from Morroco to the Caribbean back in the ‘70’s?
” [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...”
http://www.sciencenews.org/pages/sn_arc97/3_1_97/fob2.htm
Of the animal bones at the site, most of them from horses, many have incisions and fractures typically produced during butchery, the German archaeologist says. The material probably dates to 400,000 years ago, based on its position in a soil layer sandwiched between deposits of previously identified ice ages, he adds.
(Previously identified ice ages???)
http://www.stonewatch.de/media/download/WWRockArtNews-GB.pdf
Cuevo del Castillo 12,000 YO rockart ‘map’ - Canary Islands Gulf Stream system...
been done. see Thor Hyerdahl and tha RA expedition.
Local boat crew hopes to prove that trans-Atlantic travel is older than we thinkBorn in Slovakia to a Cuban father and Slovak mother, Valmana moved to Havana with his family when he was 2. Once a firm believer in Cuba's communist system, he changed his mind when he studied in Russia in 1986... A history buff, Valmana, 39, learned of the Abora III six months ago while tracking down a rare book by Thor Heyerdahl, the mariner famous for his voyages on primitive vessels. Valmana found the Abora III's Web site and got in touch with Goerlitz, who welcomed him aboard though he had no sailing experience. For Valmana, who said he wished he could have sailed with Heyerdahl, a dream had been fulfilled. When he got his first glimpse of the Abora III, his decision was confirmed.
by Madeline Baro Diaz
Sun-Sentinel
July 8 2007
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