[SunkenCiv]

Edited from Journal of Archaeological Science, Volume 38, Issue 9, pp. 2475-2479 (2011)

Here's the underlying paper (archive it soon, it'll vanish):

• Early seafaring activity in the southern Ionian Islands, Mediterranean Sea
  George Ferentinos,
  Maria Gkioni,
  Maria Geraga,
  George Papatheodorou

[muawiyah]

Even now there are those who RESIST the idea that people had boats as early as 12000 ybp.

I find it fascinating.

[Fiji Hill]

Seafaring before the Neolithic -- circa 7th millennium BCE BC-- is a controversial issue in the Mediterranean.

FIFY

[Mariner]

The more that is discovered about the ancient world the more fascinated I become.

For several hundred thousand years man has been dependent, mostly, on what Grandpa told him.

Only in the last 5-8 thousand years have we been able to write.

And now with modern technology and systematic excavation we are able to learn SO MUCH MORE than our ancestors about our human history.

It's a wonderful time to be alive, literally.