anlomedad<p>A new paper states that 44 thousand year old things like ropes and remains of tuna, found on the Philippine's Ilin Island, suggest that the people were skilled seafarers and deep-sea fishers who did not arrive on the islands by happenstance on bamboo rafts but as intentional explorers in actual boats. <br>Press release by the researchers' university:<br><a href="https://www.ateneo.edu/news/2025/02/21/clues-advanced-ancient-technology-found-philippines-island-southeast-asia" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">ateneo.edu/news/2025/02/21/clu</span><span class="invisible">es-advanced-ancient-technology-found-philippines-island-southeast-asia</span></a></p><p>****<br>Now, given how many known volcanoes there are, wouldn't it be likely that some kind of Philippine Pompeji could be found if one follows clues as to where pre-historic people might have favoured to settle? </p><p>Below is a GoogleEarth map of South East Asia, with Smithsonian's locations of <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/volcano" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>volcano</span></a> sites <a href="https://volcano.si.edu/ge/PlacemarkLinks.cfm" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">volcano.si.edu/ge/PlacemarkLin</span><span class="invisible">ks.cfm</span></a> </p><p>The red marker in the centre-right indicates Ilin Island where the archeologists did their field research.</p><p>And if they were so used to fishing, boating, maybe sailing, could they have survived a 17 thousand km trip to South America, too? ^^ With a few stopovers? What would they have done for drinking water on their island hopping? </p><p><a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/archaeology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>archaeology</span></a> <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/paleontology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>paleontology</span></a> <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/volcanism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>volcanism</span></a> <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/volcano" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>volcano</span></a> <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/RingOfFire" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RingOfFire</span></a></p>