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Prehistoric Objects Floating Across Oceans

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JackCrafty:
Question:  How likely do you think that wooden objects, made by people, floated across the oceans and ended up on far away beaches in prehistoric times?

Personally, I think this was more common than people making these journeys.  It's kind of a no-brainer.  Can you imagine discovering a dugout canoe from Europe, for example, filled with various objects like stone blades, bows, arrows, pottery, etc. washed up on a North American beach?  Or perhaps the other way around?  Humans have been making, and losing, stuff for tens of thousands of years.  I don't see why there is such debate surrounding how technology was spread in prehistoric times.

criveraville:
Interesting. Possible yes.. That's how coconuts have become more common and if I remember correctly, after that horific sunami, Mesquit trees began to go in Asian countries.. Likely?? I'm not sure.. But makes for good campfire chat..

JackCrafty:
I think it's VERY likely.  We really cannot grasp the concept of a thousand years, let alone five thousand years.  Isn't that how long the clovis technolgy lasted (5000 yrs)?

Josh:
what if there is still stuff floating out there that just stays in circulating currents...never reaching land??

JackCrafty:
I think that if there were valuable things floating out there, someone would be making money from it.   ;D

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