the party never stops. Nature mag strikes again! 300,000 years ago is the African Middle Stone Age = bifacing and blade-making tech; contemporaneous with the bifaces and blades in Valsequillo.
The $300,000 Question: Did the 300k Moroccans know about boats back then? Specifically row boats? How long did it take them to learn how to cross over to Gibralter?
also Morocco is close to the Canary Islands, which is near the current that takes you to the Barbados in a row boat. The old H. Sapiens had a couple hundred thousand years to work it out. Today, every several years there is a regatta, as in regatta any chocolate?
... [compulsion's a bitch]
"British pair becomes first mother and daughter team to cross Atlantic in rowboat"
Wednesday, May 5, 2004
(05-05) 09:03 PDT BRIDGETOWN, Barbados (AP) –
Sarah and Sally Kettle have become the first mother-daughter team to cross the Atlantic in a row boat.
The British pair set off in a 23-foot plywood boat, the Calderdale, from the Canary Islands on Jan. 20, along with 13 other boats racing in the Ocean Rowing Society's Atlantic Rowing Regatta.
Sarah, 45, and Sally, 27, arrived late Tuesday night in Barbados after the 2,907-mile journey.
"Fantastic, absolutely fantastic," Sarah Kettle said.
She said the trip was fueled by chocolate.
"We ate so much chocolate. I never ate so much chocolate until now," she said.
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