Allan Shumaker Wrote:
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> Now I freely admit that this has no bearing on
> preColumbian contact in the Americas, but it does
> indicate that long range sea travel does date back
> much farther than we thought just a few years ago.


If you remember sometime back we had some boat discussions. The first evidence of deep water sailing that I could find was this from one of Erlandson's papers. "Kozushima Island, Japan: Upper Paleolithic peoples on Honshu crossing 50 km wide channel to obtain obsidian. 25-20 Kyr" eerrr that wasn't the name of the article, just the information from his table on early sailing.

That would have been in deep, cold, water.

Here's the thread for the previous discussions:
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Kat

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How pseudoarchaeology misrepresents the past and misleads the public
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Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 08/04/2011 06:20PM by Katherine Reece.