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Originally posted by AnIntellectualRedneck
I'm supposed to believe that a bunch of Stone Age people got thousands of miles out into the middle of the Pacific on glorified canoes? Seriously? Specifically, I am thinking about Easter Island and Hawaii.
Originally posted by Hanslune
The current along the SA west coast takes you north. When Thor Hyerdahl did his thing he had to be towed out fifty miles to avoid the Humboldt current - if not he would have been swept north
Originally posted by Hanslune
Yep humans were floating around, best example - the Indonesian voyage and colonization of Madascasgar
Originally posted by Logical one
Originally posted by Hanslune
Yep humans were floating around, best example - the Indonesian voyage and colonization of Madascasgar
I think some people tend to forget that "modern" is not necessarily better.
Take a bunch of city dwellers and give them all the latest gadgets..........and chuck them in a remote Amazonian jungle..........who'd survive better the primitive " uncivilised" cut off tribes of the Amazon basin with their primitive tools.......or those city folks!edit on 29-3-2012 by Logical one because: (no reason given)
Originally posted by Hanslune
The same happens if you take an ancient fisherman and put him into an ancient mountain herder tribe, or a desert dweller into a tropical forest - its the specific environment not some much the time frame.
Originally posted by Xcathdra
Originally posted by Flavian
The port theory though is totally out there though and doesn't have too much behind it in the way of credibility (not totally dismissing but certainly there are other possibilities). As to sea fossils in the Andes, well at one point they were under the sea so that makes sense (sames as Himalayas). My bit of the world used to be tropical reef - mad when you think how bloody cold it is these days!
Actually there is some evidence that may support the theory. In Lake Titicaca there are fresh water seahorses. There are no known locations aside from the lake where the seahorse has been located. In order for the seahorse to survive it would need to evolve and adapt.
Originally posted by Harte
The only specimen that has ever existed is a dried one found by Arthur Posnanski, the same guy who claimed the place was 14,000 years old. No living seahorse has ever been even seen in Titicaca.
Doesn't mean there's not one there, but let's not get all flustered here,.
Harte
Originally posted by Hanslune
reply to post by Blue Shift
Drifting is always a possibility; Japanese boats drifted to the American Northwest in historic times and a disable boat, off the American coast, drifted almost all the way to Europe.
The current along the SA west coast takes you north. When Thor Hyerdahl did his thing he had to be towed out fifty miles to avoid the Humboldt current - if not he would have been swept north
Originally posted by Hanslune
reply to post by punkinworks10
Yes I did it dealt with a Japanese ship that arrived on the Pacific North East, one of the crew survived and later became an interpreter
U.S. Coast Guard scuttles Japanese tsunami ship
The Ryou-Un Maru, carrying up to 2,100 gallons of diesel fuel, was about 170 nautical miles southwest of the Alaskan town of Sitka and had been drifting toward busy navigational lanes used by cargo vessels plying the waters of the Great Circle route between North America and Asia, Wadlow said.