Re: Brideshead and paleo anthropology revisited

On 12.9.2024. 3:03, JTEM wrote:

  Mario Petrinovic wrote:

         I think that it should be the case that Atlantic Ocean is far wider than the Wallace line, but it actually isn't? Are you crazy? Are you narcissist?

 What you think isn't relevant. Monkeys are found on both sides
of the Atlantic. They are not found on the other side of the
Wallace Line.
 So no matter what you want to argue, the crossing was made in
the Atlantic.

Don't you get it, what you (and everybody else) is saying doesn't have the slightest of senses. They did manage to cross huge Atlantic Ocean, but they didn't manage to cross narrow Wallace Line?
Don't you get it, there was *no* crossing between Africa and South America, just like there was *no* crossing between Africa and Madagascar, in the time leaping primates were active. Monkeys from Africa *never* crossed to Madagascar, monkeys *never* crossed Wallace Line, but they did cross by far the widest of them all, Atlantic Ocean? No, in the time their ancestors moved from Africa to South America there was *no* crossing, for god's sake, it was all connected to Antarctica. Do you get it (finally)? The link between South America and Antarctica broke only 35 mya.

Honey, look at a map. You just follow the coast.

 

         Cherry pie, page 35, just a little read, direct route over open sea from Brittany to NW Iberia, 10 - 12 days, Bronze Age.

 And very few if any would ever do that.
 Open sea and get caught in a storm? Death. Hugging the coast and a
storm brews up?  Beach yourself and wait it out.
 Just look at the map. They had zero incentive to do anything but
sail within sight of the coast.

Jesus, on that map you have standard routes. They said that this crossing was made only during summer, when conditions are good. On Mediterranean you mostly have good conditions, Mediterranean is closed sea. You can go away from land, but still you are always relatively close to land, much closer than that route from Brittany to NW Iberia, and, for sure, there isn't a possibility that you will end up in the open ocean. You have the wrong idea, but you are narcissist and you don't want to admit it.