Ancient DNA Shows Stone Age Europeans Voyaged by Sea to Africa

&gt; <i>Many potential stopovers are now submerged</i><p>If I was a billionaire, I&#x27;d look into funding tech for excavating coastlines during the ice age(s), That&#x27;s where any 10k old civilizations must have been.

No need for boat during the Messinian Salinity Crisis. This seems to imply once the water started taking over, eyesight navigation was the way.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Messinian_salinity_crisis" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Messinian_salinity_crisis</a>

How does DNA show they traveled by sea?

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Ex-pats not immigrants.

Wasn’t the water level lower back then? How much smaller was the Mediterranean?

Could the legend of Atlantis just been a reference to early European sailors visiting North Africa, across the Mediterranean?

&gt; Hunter-gatherers from Europe and North Africa could have traversed the Sicilian Strait in long wooden canoes, navigating from island to island by sight. Many potential stopovers are now submerged, making it hard to find further evidence for these voyages, Lucarini adds.<p>The title is misleading.

The story that civilization started 5-6000 years ago in Mesopotamia is pretty quickly eroding away. It’s interesting to see all the new evidence for advanced technology existing much earlier than expected.