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Yes I can't imagine what would drive someone to get on a boat in to the complete unknown with no way back
greentricky-
what would drive someone to get on a boat in to the complete unknown with no way back
There were alleged sightings of Inuits in canoes off the north coast of Scotland (Finn-men) and a heavily disputed account of an Inuit arriving in Roman Occupied Belgium. Contemporary Inuits were asked if it were possible and they seemed to think it wouldn’t be easy but totally possible to make such a journey.
In their mind, you would be travelling on top of a food source and you could access fresh water via ice or rainwater.Obviously getting to Australia is different in many ways, but it wouldn’t have been a moonshot, it would have been incremental journeys of exploration. The unknown would have reduced over many journeys over many generations
Alf0nse
This is about contemporaneous with when Sapiens reached Australia? I can't understand prehistoric seafarers. How did people set off over the horizon on small vessels with no knowledge of what lay beyond? What was the ratio of those who made landfall and those who died at sea?