Human migration throughout history - GIF

**Altair** · Jul 2, 2022, 07:07 AM

Human migration throughout history.

**mr mikey** · Jul 3, 2022, 06:51 AM

Wow, to think they traveled without GPS, Cars, Trucks and planes. Just good old determination on foot. Would people travel that way today?.

**mklotz** · Jul 3, 2022, 09:01 AM

Originally Posted by mr mikey

Wow, to think they traveled without GPS, Cars, Trucks and planes. Just good old determination on foot. Would people travel that way today?

Probably a great deal of the trekking was done by boat, both along coasts and via navigable rivers.

Archaeologists now believe the populating of the Americas was done by sailing down along the west coast rather than the previous theory of an ice-free channel opening in the ice sheet that covered Canada and the northern US. This was the way mankind reached the southern part of Chile so quickly.

The loop around India and the path out into the Pacific also suggest maritime movement. With the higher sea level today many possible traces of coastal stopovers are hidden or obliterated.

**neilbourjaily** · Jul 3, 2022, 10:03 AM

It'd be good to know when this was made. Its suggestions, conclusions? are controversial in light of discoveries of the past ten years.
Nevertheless, it's a cool graphic!

**Hoosiersmoker** · Jul 12, 2022, 10:58 AM

Originally Posted by mklotz

Probably a great deal of the trekking was done by boat, both along coasts and via navigable rivers.

Archaeologists now believe the populating of the Americas was done by sailing down along the west coast rather than the previous theory of an ice-free channel opening in the ice sheet that covered Canada and the northern US. This was the way mankind reached the southern part of Chile so quickly.

The loop around India and the path out into the Pacific also suggest maritime movement. With the higher sea level today many possible traces of coastal stopovers are hidden or obliterated.

It appears this illustration assumes before the latest continental drift