The Strait of Gibraltar is about 8 miles wide. I could see Neolithic people wandering down Spain, seeing land from on top of the Rock of Gibraltar, and deciding to paddle over, then going east across the North African coast.
Setting out from Sicily with no idea of whether you would find land before dying, seems a bit ambitious. I could see it happening after it became common knowledge that land was there.
>>The Strait of Gibraltar is about 8 miles wide. I could see Neolithic people wandering down Spain, seeing land from on top of the Rock of Gibraltar, and deciding to paddle over, then going east across the North African coast.
>>Setting out from Sicily with no idea of whether you would find land before dying, seems a bit ambitious. I could see it happening after it became common knowledge that land was there.
A Gibraltar Dam has been postulated to have existed which would have allowed land migration from Spain to Africa. Theories of another dam from Sicily to Tunisia have also been put forward.
If it was a good route for the barbarian German Vandal tribes to get to Africa is as good enough for ancient hunter gatherers.
That’s where the Celts crossed into North Africa.