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On 9 Jan 2026 20:36:38 GMT
rbowman <bowman@montana.com> wrote:

> > That *is* an intriguing question - AFAIK the evidence we have is
> > scant, but it's certainly a fascinating notion. Dunno if we'll ever
> > get any solid answers, but you gotta wonder...  
> 
> Heyerdahl was disliked by the academics but he had an embarrassing
> habit of building boats and going places that shouldn't have been
> reachable in their theories. 

Certainly can't accuse him of not putting his money where his mouth was.

> Before Doggerland sank anybody could wander over without having to
> build a coracle.

It's truly amazing how much of the world was walkable in the Ice Age;
doesn't explain *every* place humans ended up (it's absolutely mind-
boggling to consider how far back the Pacific islands were settled,)
but it absolutely made a whole lotta places readily accessible for a
good long while. Makes you wonder, too, how many of the various quasi-
Atlantean legends in northwest Europe are really mutated folk memory
from a *staggeringly* long time ago...