Posted: Jan 15, 2021 1:21 pm
Spearthrower wrote:There's a whole load of studies being published right now about sea-faring interactions of the past. The palaeolithic colonization of the Caribbean and the Ryukyu islands, and an ancient sea-faring people on the Mariana Islands - the proto-Polynesians.
Well, we are used to the idea that all the discoveries were made by European countries. But after all, not only in Europe lived people who came up with the idea to build such a ship that can cover a long distance. And some shipping laws could be discovered not only by the Dutch or the British, for example.