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IPFS News Link • Archaeology

Primitive Humans Conquered Seas

08-28-2014 • arclein

Crete has been surrounded by vast stretches of sea for some five million years. The discovery of the hand ax suggests that people besides technologically modern humans?possibly Homo heidelbergensis?island-hopped across the Mediterranean tens of thousands of millennia earlier than expected. Many researchers have hypothesized that the early humans of this time period were not capable of devising boats or navigating across open water. But the new discoveries hint that these human ancestors were capable of much more sophisticated behavior than their relatively simple stone tools would suggest.

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Reported By robert klein

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