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[–] [email protected] 38 points 1 month ago (5 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 month ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 month ago

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

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 month ago

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

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month 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.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Goods can travel across the entire world through trade without any individual person needing to travel further than the next village. The same applies to genes which is only one of many reasons why it's ridiculous to treat other humans like they are some kind of alien species.