[SunkenCiv]

Sidebars:

• Age constraints for the Trachilos footprints from Crete [10/12/2021]
• Neandertals, Stone Age people may have voyaged the Mediterranean [05/05/2018]
• Controversial footprint discovery suggests human-like creatures may have roamed Crete [09/01/2017]
• The Discovery that Revealed Ancient Humans Navigated the Seas 130,000 Years Ago [2013] [07/15/2016]
• Ancient Mariners: Did Neanderthals Sail to Mediterranean? [11/24/2012]
• Anthropologist suggests Mediterranean islands inhabited much earlier than thought [11/16/2012]
• Neanderthals were ancient mariners [03/02/2012]
• Cretan tools point to 130,000-year-old sea travel [01/03/2011]
• On Crete, New Evidence of Very Ancient Mariners [02/17/2010]
• Ancient hominids may have been seafarers [01/14/2010]
• 'Cyclops' - Like Remains Found On Crete [02/01/2003]

[mylife]

Is Homer aware of this?

[mylife]

Odyssey

[CFW]

And then again, they may have not. We can play “may haves” all day and night, but we just do not really know how and when they traveled. Artifacts may have ended up in different areas due to flooding or the changing of the tides and not by traveling people. We shouldn’t take a hypotheses and make it into absolutes. Researchers will often start with a “maybe” and soon people have dropped that part and changed it into a “they definitely did this” narrative. That’s how bits of “known” history is often found to be wrong. Plus, this entire premise is racist! (Or, at least it will be found to be so by the end of next week).

(I slept for only 3 hours and woke up and can’t get back to sleep so I’m feeling a bit bitchy here at 2:00 a.m.).

[DesertRhino]

80-100 miles across, plenty of islands. Very possible indeed.

[algore]

One if by air, or two if by sea

https://en.aegeanair.com/

[Vermont Lt]

Sea levels at the end of the last ice age were hundreds of feet lower than today. That means there was a very different geography. Where there is 20 feet of water today…it would have been a hillside 13,000 years ago.

[bunkerhill7]

“Human ancestors may have done swum on dry land across the Aegean Sea”

there fixed it

[GaryCrow]

I wonder how they got past the Kraken?

[Redcitizen]

I hear The Eurythmics sailed across the 7 seas.

[LibWhacker]

If the early sailors made boats, (or floated on logs)...

Hahaha, that's some crazy stuff right there. I don't call a couple of monkeys hanging onto a log for dear life and drifting from island to island partway across the Aegean Sea 'sailing.'