[HN Gopher] Stone tool analysis in Southeast Asia provides evide...
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       Stone tool analysis in Southeast Asia provides evidence of
       seafaring technology
        
       Author : bookofjoe
       Score  : 21 points
       Date   : 2025-03-01 15:51 UTC (1 days ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (www.popularmechanics.com)
 (TXT) w3m dump (www.popularmechanics.com)
        
       | bookofjoe wrote:
       | https://archive.ph/gsoEH
        
       | mmooss wrote:
       | Does anyone have a cite for the actual paper? I can't seem to
       | access it via ScienceDirect.
        
         | yannis wrote:
         | There is a link in the article.
         | https://archive.ph/o/gsoEH/https://www.sciencedirect.com/sci...
        
         | ForTheKidz wrote:
         | the doi is https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jasrep.2025.105020
         | 
         | I haven't found the actual paper yet tho
        
       | zozbot234 wrote:
       | Yet more evidence that Graham Hancock is right - even as far back
       | as 10,000 years ago, humans had the technology to be a seafaring
       | civilization with potentially a world-wide span. Could this
       | advanced technology be the product of the ancient Lemuria
       | civilization that was submerged when the sea-level rose after the
       | end of the Ice Age, and is talked about in the oral tradition of
       | South-East Asian peoples?
        
       | blindriver wrote:
       | Graham Hancock and his theory on advanced civilizations before a
       | cataclysm feels like it's getting more and more traction given
       | evidence like this. The previous theories of civilization
       | starting 6000 years ago in Mesopotamia seems like it's wrong,
       | given how hard it is to prove strong evidence like this article
       | and other sites like Gobleki Tepe, which is 12,000+ years old.
        
       | geniium wrote:
       | Crazy!
        
       | bodegajed wrote:
       | I remember in history class, at this period humans are merely
       | discovering stone tools and discovery of fire. Yet here,
       | researchers presented evidence of tools from boat-makers and
       | other technology where humans navigate on deep waters? this is
       | crazy!
        
       | EdwardDiego wrote:
       | The people who left Sunda and crossed the Weber line to settle
       | Sahul 50 - 60,000 years ago had to traverse about 90km of deep
       | ocean to do so.
       | 
       | "Passively floating on a raft" for 90km was never really
       | plausible.
        
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