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Archaeologists estimate that people are coming to Ryukhu Islands on the southwest coast of Japan for the first time in the first place of 35,000 years ago. However, they had a mystery, especially if they had to pass one of the most powerful ocean cases of the planet. To solve this continuous question, scientists decided to test themselves for themselves.
About 50,000 to 10,000 years ago, about 50,000 years ago, 68.4 miles between Taiwan and Yonaguni Island, including 45 hours in the Japanese archipelago, including 45 hours.
“Our 7.5-meter-long drilling produced by outside stone axes, it was fast and sustainable to cross this throat,” said researchers wrote in the work published today Science advances. “It supports the early development of functional ships, even if our tombs become possible for experienced padders with advanced navigation skills of this type of sea travel.
One of the biggest challenges to study the previous sea from history is that such ancient water vessels have long been divided from organic material such as wood. The next best way to do ancient people without archaeological evidence, the best way to work with experimental archeology, determining the possible approach to physically recurring efforts in a simulated historical context.
Tokyo University Anthropologist Kaifu and its co-authors, since 2013, have tried to contact Ryukhu Islands with modern navigation technologies such as GPS or compasses-successful trips. The winning design was a canoe made of hollow and polished Japanese cedar tree, which is an interior of a 5 crew member.
“Taking into account the lack of archeological and ethnographic records of the Pleistoen watercraft, we reduced possible Paloken and ethnographic records, taking into account the material existence, technological restrictions and the powers of each artist. This HolosenStarting 11,700 years ago, it is the current time period. “We also aim to examine travel time, the amount of efforts required and other realities of Paleolithic Ocean crossings for the first South Ryukhu Islands.”
In this spirit, the team developed computer models to simulate what the late Pleistos would like such a link with the ocean conditions. According to simulations, the integrated data collected during the experimental journey – the success of the previous journey (ideal, quiet, quiet bays), orientation strategy (using the first paddle East-South-East) will be determined.
In addition, “Our separate numerical simulation research shows that this type of ship can travel from the point of the modern and late Pleistos in Taiwan (Taroko) in the world of Yonaguni,” he said. “Paleolithic people are often regarded as’ low because of ‘primary’ culture and technology, primarily among the general public. In sharp contrast [work] He stressed that they got something extraordinary with Rudimentary technology, which are available to them. “
While Experimental projects cannot replace direct archaeological evidence, research is a final host unit solidarity Offers creative theories in the absence of direct material evidence.
