Re: Brideshead and paleo anthropology revisited

  Mario Petrinovic wrote:

         Don't talk BS, there is no way a sane person would go into deep sea with a bark, or skin canoe

Which did the monkeys use to cross between the old & new
worlds? Hmm?
The famous Eskimo kayak was made of animal skins on a
frame...
The first ocean travelers were likely victims of
happenstance:  Natural disasters, storms, unknown
currents. They never wanted to venture into deep waters.
The trip chose them, not the other way around.
It's extremely unlikely that any archaic humans would have
crossed open waters. Even in roman times ships rarely
sailed out of view of land.
With sea level much lower, the land much larger and closer
together, the first Australians could probably see the wild
fires even if not the land itself. They knew the land was
there.
It was less "Venturing into the unknown" and more floating
across a stretch of water.
A dugout canoe is logic. A tree floats. So, make a place
to sit within it and YOU float... but it's not exactly
efficient.
Tree bark? Okay. Or animal hide...
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