chapotraphouse

Hitting Tierra del Fuego:

"Shit."

Leftist infighting is simply human nature

or one tribe doing well and needing more land, so they split and some of the kids move 20-30km over. do that for generations and you can cover the earth pretty quick, especially along coastlines

Yall mind if a white boy speaks a little proto indo European?

>Crossing the Amazon basin

>Gets slapped

>"That's it! Back to Winnipeg"

these are the people who INVENTED the wheel

I'm more surprised that the Maori only arrived in New Zealand like a 1000 years ago.

I think a lot of these are very conservative estimates, like the oldest date there is hard evidence for. Like with the coastal travel to the Americas bit, there's a growing body of evidence that would put that at closer to 30 or 40 thousand years ago just because there are sites in the Americas that seem to be that old and "coastal boats" are the best theory since the land bridge was blocked by ice sheets, which would necessarily push back several earlier points in that chain too.

I think the red arrow show people arriving 5,000 years earlier to West Africa than Australia? hard to say, there's no explanation for the yellow numbers, maybe they were cut off with the Americas.

Most of the old world probably already had hominids of one type of another, and for example there was a 210,000 year old homo sapiens skull found in Greece, but we already really know about the successful migrations where humans were able to survive long enough to make a mark - which would have been more likely to occur where there weren't any hominids already (like Australia)

No more have measures walker

Map of Early Human Migrations

You are right, but indigenous Australians are completely unrelated to Austronesian people (the descendants of indigenous Taiwanese who cover an area from Madagascar to Rapa Nui). Papua New Guinea is a mosaic of Papuans who arrived tens of thousands of years ago and Austronesian "Melanesians" that arrived much later and usually live along the coast.

Apparently even at the time the kon-tiki expedition was largely regarded as racist pseudoscience. Heyerdahl made a simple raft when Austronesian people have sophisticated outrigger canoes and refused to accept the common knowledge of the day because he said they were "too primitive" to sail into the wind.

Edit: he also hypothesised colonisation by a white, blonde, blue-eyed people rather than. Y'know. Polynesians. Because he believed only white people could be capable of such a feat.