As I sit on the sand the salty ice
water approaches my toes, I let the sand run through my fingers and listen to
the seagulls on the Pacific coastline, and all of my focus is driven to the beautiful
sun setting into the ocean. I am amazed by the fact that seventy one percent of
earths surface is covered by the ocean. I can’t even begin to imagine the
quantity of artifacts, lives, and histories that are hidden deep inside the
large body of water that lies before me. I, like many other individuals, rarely take the time to
actually consider how much history, is yet to be revealed with the numerous amounts
of historical artifacts and evidence concealed in the sea.
It amazes me how much society
underestimates our ancestors that astonishingly voyaged their way around the
world. I believe they were extremely courageous individuals that were capable
of crossing dangerous and large water barriers to disperse around earth. Our
ancestors also managed to discover various coastal adaptations required for
survival while voyaging. Their
intelligence allowed them to construct composite forms of watercrafts. They
somehow understood the sophisticated technology and engineering required to
construct a boat to get them across the huge ocean. Without any education,
these individuals worked out of desperation and managed to survive off of
marine resources and maintained a strong boat that got them across vicious open
waters to a land where they had the opportunity to colonize.
It’s unbelievable how many years it
has taken archeologist and maritime historians to discover the antiquity of
maritime people. Many families spread around the earth’s surface during a period
of dramatic sea-level changes. There were many glaciers during the time of their
voyages. It disappoints me how
many archeological evidence is eroding in the ocean due to global warming and
the rapid sea-level rise. It is truly unfortunate that most of the coastlines our
ancestors used is now submerged deep inside the ocean, making it nearly
impossible to discover more ancient seafaring history.
As scholars continue to search for
evidence for systematic seafaring, island colonization, and marine hunting,
fishing, and shellfish they come to realize that the theories, that were once
thought to be true, are being contradicted by artifact found in the ocean and
it’s geographical evolution over time. I strongly agree with the most recent
theoretical scholar prospective “individuals have always had the capacity to
rapidly adapt to a challenging condition. This human ability to innovate during
periods of heightened environmental stress is one of the hallmark characteristics
of our specie and has been central to out ability to enter and expand
throughout the entire breadth of the New World since the last Ice Age.” It’s
evident that as time progresses, assumptions scholars are making today is
either going to be contradicted or further proven correct. However, something
that will certainly remain the same is our amazing ability to adapt
correspondingly to situations that rise in our lives. That same courage and
strength that we have today, is the strength and courage our ancestors used to
survive years of voyage across the oceans, a challenge that is slowly but
surely being revealed through time.
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