The First Boat People - Review

Post by **Minimalist** » Fri May 16, 2008 7:53 pm

Modest, too.

Beagle · Post by **Beagle** » Tue May 20, 2008 5:34 pm

My wife would disagree Min.

http://discovermagazine.com/2008/jun/20 ... ld-by-boat

By the 1980s, coastal archaeologists were beginning to mull over some remarkably early finds in Australia. A series of excavations by Jim Bowler, Alan Thorne, and others in the continental interior revealed that ancient humans had fished and collected freshwater mussels along the shores of the Willandra Lakes 50,000 years ago, possibly earlier. How on earth had humans managed to arrive down under so early? Even then Australia was an island continent, and some researchers reported that its indigenous inhabitants, the Aborigines, historically lacked oceangoing boats. It did not seem possible that their ancestors had arrived by watercraft.

An article on early seafaring, making the case for the use of boats 70,000ya. Many of us are convinced that boats were in use much earlier. Good 3 page article.

Post by **Minimalist** » Tue May 20, 2008 9:37 pm

They always do.

spacecase0 · Post by **spacecase0** » Wed May 21, 2008 2:58 pm

Beagle, thanks for the article.

Today these plains lie beneath almost 400 feet of water, out of reach of all but a handful of underwater archaeologists. “So this shines a spotlight on a huge area of ignorance: what people were doing when sea level was lower than at present,” says Geoff Bailey, a coastal archaeologist at the University of York in England. “And that is especially problematic, given that sea level was low for most of prehistory.”

is anyone else noticing that history seems to start around when sea level quit covering up the areas the people lived in at the end of the last ice age ?
is anyone seriously looking for the underwater villages of the past ? when I look for "underwater archeology", all I get are things on boats, can anyone tell me who the "handful of underwater archaeologists" are so that I can see what they have been finding ?
thank you~

Digit · Post by **Digit** » Wed May 21, 2008 3:52 pm

Check out Doggerland Space.

kbs2244 · Post by **kbs2244** » Wed May 21, 2008 5:23 pm

Big ships turn slow.
Little tugs help by pushing and pulling..
But there is still lot of inertia there.

spacecase0 · Post by **spacecase0** » Fri May 23, 2008 10:55 am

thank you Digit, that found what I was looking for, I am excited.

"Big ships turn slow."
I guess that am getting use to that.

"Little tugs help by pushing and pulling.. "
I will do my part, slowly and calmly.