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Posted on 10/12/2025 8:15:51 AM PDT by SunkenCiv
The straits that separate the Lesser Sundas from Bali and Java are deep, and powerful ocean currents run through them: so significant is this barrier that it has contributed to the development of what is termed the Wallace Line, a biogeographical boundary that divides the floras and faunas of Australasia in the south from the Asian ecosystems to the north. Currents might be more favourable if one approached from the north-east, through Borneo and the island of Sulawesi, and intriguingly, recent findings indicate archaic hominid settlement there reaching back over a million years. Even the approach to Sulawesi itself, however, would have been a substantial feat of seafaring needing explanation. In all, then, it is not remotely clear by what route the ancestors of the Flores "Hobbits"reached their island home, nor -- crucially -- by what means. Reach it, however, they did.
In the Mediterranean, pre-Homo sapiens hominids similarly seem to have made the crossings to isolated islands. On Crete, there is evidence of habitation going back 130,000 years, to, debatably, upwards of 700,000 years. The Cyclades islands north of Crete also contain sites dating to around 250,000 years ago...
The artifacts from Middle and Late Pleistocene Crete resemble those made by H. Erectus and the preceding H. heidelbergensis elsewhere, while those found on other islands in the region indicate probable Neanderthal settlement...
Perhaps most striking evidence of all comes from the island of Socotra in the Indian Ocean, a strange and remote place sundered from Arabia and the Horn of Africa by wide spans of water and vast gulfs of time. Here, archaeological evidence indicates a settlement by very archaic hominids already between 1.4-2.5 million years ago, which would be by far the oldest such overseas colonisation known...
(Excerpt) Read more at palladiummag.com ...
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The rest of the Erectus Ahoy keyword, sorted:
Thanks for the links!
Yes, the Mariners are indeed at the dawn of history. Good luck getting to the World Series, as the only team left never to do so!
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Seven things were created before the creation of the world. They are: the Torah, Repentance, Paradise, Gehenna, the Throne of Glory, the heavenly Temple, and the name of the Messiah. The Messiah's name was engraved on a precious stone on the altar of the heavenly Temple, as it is said. His name existed before the sun (Psa. 72:17).
Tree of Souls
94. SEVEN THINGS CREATED BEFORE THE CREATION OF THE WORLD
(93. THE BEGINNING OF TIME)
Prehistory is vast and the world wide. It is quite possible that different crafts and technologies were used by different peoples at different times; there is no good reason to suppose that the archaic Australians of 40,000 BC would necessarily have boated like the Iberians of 25,000 BC. Technologies may have been invented, and flourished, for hundreds or even thousands of years before being lost and entirely forgotten—or, the Stone Age world may simply have been a more primitive, unchanging one in this regard, restricted to only the most basic of seacrafts.
No mention of stick charts:
The charts, unlike traditional maps, were studied and memorized prior to a voyage and were not consulted during a trip, as compared to traditional navigation techniques where consultation of a map is frequent and points and courses are plotted out both before and during navigation.
Marshallese navigators used their senses and memory to guide them on voyages by crouching down or lying prone in the canoe to feel how the canoe was being pitched and rolled by underlying swells.
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Stick charts were not made and used by all Marshall Islanders. Only a select few rulers knew the method of making the maps, and the knowledge was only passed on from father to son. So that others could utilize the expertise of the navigator, fifteen or more canoes sailed together in a squadron, accompanied by a leader pilot skilled in use of the charts.
Reminds me of a chain midrash, specifically the navigational one about the Tzohar stone (see the Tree of Souls link for 109. THE TZOHAR).
Kindergarten assignment: draw Day One of Creation, Gen 1:1-5:
...a blue or white background with an angel with outstretched wings... and on the sea is the stylized nautical chart and the listel with the Name of the Emblem itself: "SEAL"
Seal of the Marshall Islands
An interesting detail is in the description on the Hebrew page, which computer-translates as:
"The emblem of the Marshall Islands consists of a traditionally painted bird..."
Must be an art *and* a science. "Being pitched and rolled by underlying swells" is weaving through the waves:
So that others could utilize the expertise of the navigator, fifteen or more canoes verses sailed together in a squadron passage...
Ezekiel 37:13-28Nice touch with a Kosher seal from Orthodox Union. Clever!
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Damn, dude.
I thought you were rubbing our nose into the play-offs loss!
Bump for history lesson.. later
The Mariners once had a team with Ken Griffey Jr, A-Rod, Edgar Martinez and Randy Johnson, and finished under .500. That was your shot at the World Series if there ever was one.
bkmk (I love this topic!)
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