Re: ANCIENT MARINERS: Andean-Mexican seagoing trade

From: 6e70 (hagenpault_at_att.net)
Date: 07/09/04 

Date: 9 Jul 2004 05:26:44 -0700

Copper issues aside, if a people had a boat/raft which could go 10
miles up the coast, you can bet sooner or later they went all the way
up the coast. At least until they ran into some obstacle to
navigation, or they had to get back for lunch. As children in
Minnesota we explored every foot of shoreline on some very large
lakes, every inlet and bay and up every creek on those lakes to which
we had any access. And, this was only during a few weeks in the
summer over too few summers. Don't you suppose that enterprising
young people of Pre-Columbian America had explored the coasts? For
fun, for profit, following herds of sea mammals or various runs of
fish? Traded along the way? Certainly there were seaborne raiders like
Vikings, certainly pirates. Wars at sea between seagoing cultures.
All the types of things which were happening in the historically known
world were also happening on the coasts of the Americas. It is just
human nature.

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