Archaeologists estimate that humans first reached the Ryukue islands on the south -western coast of 35,000 to 27,500 years ago from the south -west coast of Japan. However, how he did this remains a mystery, especially since he would have to cross one of the planet’s strongest ocean streams. To address this permanent question, scientists decided to try themselves for a pallithic journey.
Using replicas of the equipment present in the Japanese archipelago during the upper peliolithic (about 50,000 to 10,000 years ago), researchers in Japan created a dugout canoe and used it to use powerful corrosion in 45 hours, between Taiwan and Jonaguni island for 68.4-mile-wide (110 km). The successful journey represents a possible way that people in the present Taiwan may have traveled to the islands thousands of years ago.
Researchers had a 7.5-meter-lamb dugout, rapid and durable built with edge-ground stone axes to cross this straight. , Science progress“It supports the early growth of functional boats such as dugouts, while our experiment also stated that this type of maritime journey was possible only for experienced paddlers with advanced navigational skills.”
One of the greatest challenges to study prehistoric sea voyage is the fact that such ancient water vessels made of biological materials, such as wood, have been disintegrated for a long time. Without direct archaeological evidence, the next best way to highlight how ancient people have done is through experimental archeology – identifying potential approaches for efforts to physically repeat them in a fake historical context.
Tokyo’s anthropologist Yousuke Kaifu and his co-author Ryukyu Islands are trying to reach the A-Lae Pallithic-in 2013 without modern navigation technologies such as GPS or compass. Prior to his successful journey in 2019, he was experimenting with cross-bundles roughs and bamboo. The winning design was a canoe made from a hollow-out and polished Japanese cedar tree, with a fire-charai interior, with five crew members taken.
Researchers stated, “Given the absence of archaeological remains of the playstocin watercraft, we have compressed the possible pallithic maritime travel crafts by considering the Holocine Archaeological and Divisional Science Records and considering the availability of contents of each craft, technical limits and travel capabilities of each craft.” Innovative eraWhatever started 11,700 years ago, is the current time period. “We have targeted to examine the other realities of the peliolithic ocean for the first South Ryukue Islanders at the time of travel, and the first South Royucue Islanders.”
In this spirit, the team developed to simulate the computer model as to what such crossing can be with late plestocin ocean conditions. According to simulation-which also integrate the data collected during the practical journey-the success of the psychic journey would have been determined by the initial point (ideally, cool sections), directional strategy (first paddle east-east, then northeast), and navigational skills (using stars and sun).
Furthermore, “Our separate numerical simulation studies show that this type of boat can travel to the Yonguuni island from a separate northern departure point in Taiwan (Taroco) in modern and late Pictocene oceans,” he said. “Palliolithic people are often considered ‘inferior’ among the general public, mainly due to their ‘primitive’ culture and technology. In the opposite opposite, our (work) highlighted that they did something extraordinary with the underdeveloped technology available at that time.”
Although such practical projects cannot change direct archaeological evidence, the study involves a host on the recent hands that offers creative principles in the absence of direct physical evidence.
