Reading about ancient people

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Re: Reading about ancient people

Post by Pappa » Wed Jan 25, 2012 3:51 pm

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Tero wrote:How did we, us homos, get to Japan 10 000 BCE? N America we just walked to.
Boat? The sea levels were lower too, so I expect they may have had less distance to travel. They managed to island-hop all the way to Australia.
It was connected to mainland Asia in the paleolithic too: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_people#History
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Re: Reading about ancient people

Post by Svartalf » Wed Jan 25, 2012 4:01 pm

And Japan is really close to Korea
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Re: Reading about ancient people

Post by Tero » Wed Jan 25, 2012 4:12 pm

Ok did not have wiki handy on phone.

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Re: Reading about ancient people

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Re: Reading about ancient people

Post by Horwood Beer-Master » Thu Mar 01, 2012 3:35 am

Pappa wrote:
Tero wrote:How did we, us homos, get to Japan 10 000 BCE? N America we just walked to.
Boat? The sea levels were lower too, so I expect they may have had less distance to travel. They managed to island-hop all the way to Australia.
Actually there's fairly good evidence that North America was probably first entered by boat as well. People followed along the coast of that land-bridge by sea rather than walking over it.
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