Sailing Cave Men

[ubs]

Kinda Cool.

It seems Homo Erectus (snort) and Neanderthal Man were sailors and populated Europe by raft in search of rare elements (quarts) to make weapons.

“We’re just going to have to accept that, as soon as hominids left Africa, they were long-distance seafarers and rapidly spread all over the place,” Strasser says. Other researchers have controversially suggested that H. erectus navigated rafts across short stretches of sea in Indonesia around 800,000 years ago and that Neandertals crossed the Strait of Gibraltar perhaps 60,000 years ago.

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[Kate]

ubs wrote

Kinda Cool.

It seems Homo Erectus (snort) and Neanderthal Man were sailors and populated Europe by raft in search of rare elements (quarts) to make weapons.

[psychodiva]

lol you beat me to it as usual Kate

fascinating that tho Ubs it does make me slightly peeved when people fail to recognise that Europe had a long history before the arrival of the Romans- this= as do many other things- remind us