Here is a quick blog touching up on a couple things I found in that large packet about the earliest people to ever travel by sea.
Ordinarily it was believed that the earliest people to ever travel by sea took place around 10,000 years ago. The reason why people never believed it was earlier than that was because during the ice age when most things were frozen, people would travel on glaciers or large ice caps before it melted. These ice caps were everywhere during the time of the ice age, and where it is impossible to travel by foot now, was possible then. Now, archaeologists how found more and more evidence that it is possible that people may have traveled by sea even earlier than we predicted. When they did this they came across small Islands, and later traveled even farther to reach the Americas. There is in fact different possible dates of when the earliest peoples may have traveled to find new lands. These dates go as early as 50,000 years ago when people would start to travel across the Pacific ocean. The packet gives estimations of the different possible times that these early travelers may have reached several distant islands, such as Japan around 25,000 years ago. It also states how these discoveries were found, by finding really old DNA and old human fossils.
Now, a lot of this can be interesting and exciting, but what purpose or affect does this have on our own lives? I actually had a talk with several family members during some of my recent trips back home over the months, talking about new things I have learned and talking about what I have been studying in classes. It has been brought up recently and quiet often "why should it matter?" This question has been more common when it came to talking about the earliest days, why does it matter? What affect does it have on us because we can't ever truly know what happened during that time but just predict it. As a future engineer there is actually no purpose or use of this to me. I give the people who make these discoveries credit but I can guarantee that in a couple years there will be a new guy saying something completely different, contradicting everything we finally started to follow. This same thing is very similar to when I took Earth Science. There is so many theories and contradictions' who knows what is the truth. My teacher kept stressing that the polar poles are going to flip and our magnetic field is going to disappear and that we are all going to burn to death and die of radiation poisoning. But hey! we are still here and as far as I know, if there is a such thing as a magnetic field, it is still there protecting us. This goes hand in hand with my first blog when I talked about the many MANY different theories of the beginnings of everything. I am sure if I was still at the community college they would be teaching me completely different things about history just like how the history book we are reading and the New Testament class I am taking don't agree with each other.
by Andrew Murillo
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