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"She said the first people who arrived in Australia at least 50,000 years ago must have had boats because they had to cross hundreds of kilometres of deep ocean
by hendler 15y ago
"She said the first people who arrived in Australia at least 50,000 years ago must have had boats because they had to cross hundreds of kilometres of deep ocean channels to get here from south-east Asia."
As far as I know, this is debatable.
See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sahul_Shelf http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sahul_Shelf
May have been 60KM of ocean or may not have been:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prehistory_of_Australia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prehistory_of_Australia
- meric 15y agoI'd like to see someone crossing a mere 60km of ocean using anything but boat (or anything flying).
- electromagnetic 15y agoUh, Petar Stoychev swam the English channel (32km) in less than 7 hours. In 1875 Matthew Webb made the crossing in under 22 hours (5 hours attributed to fighting the tides) and getting a jellyfish sting along the way. Kutral Ramesh at 13 became the youngest person to cross the English Channel, prior to this he crossed the Palk Strait 53km wide at its narrowest. In the same year, he completed a total of 6 channel crossings, the last of which was the Ten Degree Channel, which is an approximate 150km swim. If a 13 year old can swim 60km of ocean, I guess adults could have certainly made the 60km stretch. Also given that there's been the suggested presence of boats on Crete since about 130,000 years ago... they could have probably just made a dugout boat from one of the many plentiful tropical forests.
- meric 15y ago>> they could have probably just made a dugout boat from one of the many plentiful tropical forests. For me, that fits the definition of a boat. :)
- Kroem3r 15y agoI highly recommend The Wayfinders by Wade Davis. This might expand your thinking on the topic. http://www.chapters.indigo.ca/home/search/?keywords=wayfinders&pageSize=12 http://www.chapters.indigo.ca/home/search/?keywords=wayfinde...