45-hour voyage in replica canoe tests Paleolithic migration theory

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.sdf.org/post/37548613

Thinking about the Out of Africa phase of human migration always interests me. One thing that must be considered, relative to this experiment, is that our ancestors wouldn’t initially have know that there was any land to reach at the end of their voyage. What drove them to paddle into nothingness (if this was an accurate representation of how they traveled)? Fascinating stuff.