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[-] huf@hexbear.net 38 points 1 day ago

travel took an incredibly long time and was super uncomfortable and dangerous, but we have evidence of like neolithic pottery being traded vast distances.

[-] merthyr1831@lemmy.ml 4 points 8 hours ago

And travel was sometimes just a necessity, since before mechanised agriculture we were way more vulnerable to periodic changes in climate.

[-] Palacegalleryratio@hexbear.net 6 points 11 hours ago

There are flint tools on Crete that suggest that Neanderthals were sailing on the Mediterranean Sea 130,000 years ago! Which is pretty bonkers.

[-] REgon@hexbear.net 22 points 1 day ago

If coconuts can emigrate to Hawai'i on their own, then people can cross the gibraltar strait

[-] huf@hexbear.net 21 points 1 day ago

people have always moved around for various reasons. and then they fucked.

[-] REgon@hexbear.net 21 points 1 day ago

Nah that's historically inacurrate, I should know I've played the withcer

[-] gwilikers@lemmy.ml 7 points 23 hours ago
[-] REgon@hexbear.net 12 points 23 hours ago
[-] somename@hexbear.net 12 points 23 hours ago

Yeah, some people have that exploration demon in them, and wanna see the world. People were still people then, just like today.

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