Could be another topic, too bad I’m going to bed.
http://www.stonepages.com/news/archives/004698.html
[snip] Seafaring before the Neolithic — circa 7th millennium BCE — is a controversial issue in the Mediterranean. However, evidence from different parts of the Aegean is gradually changing this, revealing the importance of early coastal and island environments. The site of Ouriakos on the island of Lemnos (Greece) tentatively dates to the end of the Pleistocene and possibly the beginning of the Holocene, circa 12,000 BP. [/snip]
Go to bed, but I think we’re going to be surprised at just how dynamic life was way before “history” began.