With a primitive canoe, scientists copied prehistoric people’s trips to the Pacific

The modern man appeared in Africa almost 300,000 years ago and then spread around the world, reaching even the most secluded parts of the earth. To do this, our ancestors had to overcome geographical restrictions, conquer dangerous oceans. How did they do it, having only rudimentary tools and technology? Scientists attempted an experimental journey, the seaside of the East China Sea, rowing from Issibi, to eastern Taiwan, to Jonagouni, Japan, with an improvised canoe, to show that this was possible about 30,000 years ago. The researchers followed the same methods that the Paleolithic people would use and copies of tools of that period, such as small axes, to carve a 7.5 -meter -long canoe from a trunk of Japanese cedar. The crew, four men and one woman, boarded the canoe called “Sugime” and […]
Source: News Beast

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