Scientists use prehistoric tools to build a canoe, then paddled across 140 miles from Taiwan to Japan
Seafarers’ researchers and experts associate with re-performing an ocean journey from over 30,000 years ago
Experty paddler in the honeyed canoe recreate the ancient journey from Taiwan to Ryuku Islands.
Over 30,000 years ago, the people in the sea made an important trip from today’s Southukyu Southuwyu – a journey without any of the advanced technologies that guides us today. Although paleolithic sites on these islands have human life remnants from period of stone items, fishhooks and headhs with many things with easy-to-end organic matter.
For a new study, published on Wednesday at Science progress, Researchers also assert that delicate journey in three days in a boat built with stone items from time. “Before our project, no one is seriously considered how this marine migration,” says the author’s leadership that Yousuke Kaifu, an anthropologist at the University of Tokyo.
Years ago Kaifu gathers a team of researchers to try the possible ship plots with previous people used. The team first tried Reed-bundle rainfds and bamboo bamboo, but the vessels were very slow and quickly motivated by the course of strong waves in the area. So the next researchers decided to try a simple canoe like those who know used in place about 10,000 years ago. They cut a three-foot three-foot cedar wood used with stone axes with a wooden wood, shaped inside and shaped it with a 25-foot to eat known “Breather“A nickname that includes Japanese word for cedar.
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One of the rock axes built like prehistoric times used to fall into the wood to make canoe.
In July 2019, after two weeks waiting for calm water, five experienced paddrids began their journey without using navigation tools. They were soon experienced with mutual seas and later struggled with sleep and body. No GPS, the team depends on the sun, stars and other signs in its direction. Forty five hours and 140 miles after it started, Breather Finally reached nearest to Ryukyu islands.
Even if the bootout is the best of the team candidate boats, it’s far from perfect – always take it to the water, often taking it to one of the paddlers. “I want to see other researchers to try other watercraft for deep understanding of how our ancestors first arrived,” Kaifu said.
Cutting the wooden cedar in the afternoon to make the dagout canal.
The reenactment helps to describe how skilled and coordinated the original seas have to take such a journey. “I enjoyed the project because there were some newly discovered almost every day,” Kaifu said.
This effort continues with a global trend of experimental archaeological revision of the archaeological boat. A group wearing a Bamboo Raft From over 800,000 years ago and it used to travel between Indonesian islands. Another team rebuilt the remains of Eight-century-century-CE Bays to try the Charentte river in France.
The finished dugout boat before leaving, with leaf leaf leaf guards (RIGHT) and stiff (nothing). The vertical rods of bow and stern for a camera and a tight light, indeed. The bow rope is to give up.
“There is also a great resurrection in People’s seizure and experimental borrowing the Pacific, which is more interesting at the moment, “said Helen Farr, an archaeologist of Maritime at the University of Southatton in England-Focused Podcast In front of us, which is not involved in study. “The native communities have their heritage in the sea through these prosperous societies.”
These and other experimental archaeological projects can help enlighten the parts of the man’s migration to lose history. “Suddenly you see a skill level and plan that is hard to see in archaeological records for this time,” that mostly consists of fossils and stone tools, the Farer says. “So get a sharp intelligence of an activity – a temporal, spatial, specific activity such as the sea in this region – and only you get, is that true, true happiness.”
