Re: Fifty-thousand friggin' years?

From: Nick Maclaren (nmm1_at_cus.cam.ac.uk)
Date: 11/23/04 

Date: 23 Nov 2004 09:01:24 GMT

In article <41A29190.7080307@earthlink.net>,
Roger Bagula <tftn@earthlink.net> wrote:
>There is no land bridge to Australia.
>The dates there are all well known.
>The closest island is several miles.
>Yes, it is pretty hard to see boats that far back, but
>I doubt they could swin that well either...
>not in family units anyway, ha, ha.

A few miles is within the possibility of a hurricane blowing a tree
with several animals on it across the gap. There has been no way
to get from the Old World to the Americas during the existence of
the human race, without at least carrying a LOT of water.

Even if there were 'ice free' routes across Siberia and Alaska,
the travellers either have to get across in a single summer (which
is a ridiculous rate of travel) or survive a winter in the north
(which requires serious skills and serious technology).

Humans in the Americas 50,000 years ago is boggleworthy. Humans
in Australia 50,000 years ago is nothing by comparison.

Regards,
Nick Maclaren.

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