XPost: alt.folklore.computers   
   From: commodorejohn@gmail.com   
      
   On 9 Jan 2026 20:36:38 GMT   
   rbowman  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...   
      
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