Testing the waters: Plant working and seafaring in Pleistocene Wallacea
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S2352409X25000525
Well I am utterly shocked that people living on islands develop sea travel earlier then people living on massive continents.
Obviously this was Government grant money well spent and isn’t tainted with jingoism at all.
Clues of advanced ancient technology found in the Philippines and Island Southeast Asia
I believe it
Typical lame useless science writing. The headline states the timeline is challenge but the article never bothers to identify how.
Almost like they want to hide the impact.
My take, once again we get another discovery that significantly shifts dating yet we are to keep trusting they get it right.
Truth is they have no real idea when anything happened and guess wildly imo, the only criteria modern science has is to ensure everything they propose is stated in a way to contradicts the Bible’s history.
It’s amazing to me that people 40,000 years ago could master boat design, boat building, sails, oars, hulls, navigation, etc but still not have developed a written language.
Grant money is forever!!
Color me skeptical.
Did they have a rudder, sails, oars, nets?
If you get more than a mile or two from home port, what is your plan to get home, if the current, or the wind, or day light, is against you?
40,000 years ago is close to Glacial Maximum in the last Ice Age.
My own theory - hundreds, perhaps thousands, of new habitable islands emerged from the Pacific Ocean during Glacial Maximum, which made exploration simpler and safer.
N Vietnamese, Viet Cong...having been bombed all the way back to the Stone Age?
More evidence that the idiotic “Lucy” theory is B.S. All human life did NOT come out of Africa.
PING
"Invention. The first magnetic compass was invented by the Chinese during the Han dynasty back in 206 BC. It was later adopted for navigational purposes by the Song dynasty during the 11th century and later in Western Europe and Persia in the 13th century.
40,000 years ago SE Asia was populated by Denisovans.
Maybe Homo Sapiens migrated in and were better at seafaring, spreading beyond Denisovan areas thereby restricting the later’s access to resources and hastening their demise?