Did Early Humans Could Sail
LAS VEGAS, KOMPAS.com — was not only a clever man sailing in ancient times. Early humans such as Neanderthals, allegedly also had been able to sail the seas of the Mediterranean by boat is simple.
Alan Simmons, an archaeologist from the University of Nevada at Las Vegas in publication in the journal Science, Friday (16/11/2012), outlining some of the artifacts that can be an amplifier the conjecture. Artifacts were thought to be older than the age of the Mediterranean lands were formed approximately 10,000 years ago.
One of the artifacts found are obsidian from Melos in the Aegean Islands are found in the soil layers of 11,000 years ago in Franchthi Cave. The excavations on the coast of Cyprus also found stone artifacts dating from 12,000 years ago.
"We found evidence that human hunting triggered the extinction of the dwarf hippos in Cyprus 12,000 years ago," said Simmons was quoted as saying Friday, Livescience today.
According to Simmons, artifacts and the extinction of the dwarf hippos became the amplifier that early humans did not have to be good at farming or ranching to get food source. They could be a hunter who has got the ability to sail.
Recently discovered artifacts also show that early humans were able to sail away, even down to the region of Crete.
In the Ionian Islands, found evidence of human sites aged 110,000 years ago. The investigation also found an axe, machete and pencungkil in stone which is thought to date from the 170,000 in Crete.
Crete and other inventions are separated from the Mainland at that time. Simmons says, evidence that suggests that a cruise is not made by modern humans, but humans such as Neanderthals or Homo erectus.
However, the allegations were to be tested. Currently, one of the problems in the archaeological research is the exact date. If carbon dating performed on artifacts that right, early humans proved to be sailing.
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