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> Yet another datapoint that shows people were more sophisticated than previously assumed Not really, simple boats and canoes predate this find by at least 5-6
by ch4s3 3y ago
> Yet another datapoint that shows people were more sophisticated than previously assumed
Not really, simple boats and canoes predate this find by at least 5-6k years. The earliest depiction of a boat under sail predates this canoe by maybe 1-2 thousand years. The Austronesian peoples were setting sail around the time this canoe was built.
- angiosperm 3y agoPeople were navigating out of sight of land, and reached Australia tens of thousands of years before this. They might have reached North America, too. Anyway we know people got there because they butchered the Hartley mammoth 37kya.