First evidence of seagoing vessels in the Mediterranean. However, Australian Aborigines had already developed this technology nearly 40,000 years earlier! In fact, they first reached Australia from the Indonesian islands 50,000 years ago. Even from the closest islands to Australia (Timor and Tanimbar), the new continent is invisible on the horizon, even considering the decline in sea levels due to glaciations. The Aborigines must therefore have crossed the deep sea channel with technologically advanced boats. This (enormous) initial advantage, however, was not sufficient for the Aborigines to dominate the planet’s other civilizations, due to severe local environmental limitations, such as the absence of significant domesticatable species (perhaps due to extermination by the Aborigines themselves).
