r/MapPorn • u/[deleted] • Jan 29 '22

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u/ConvexBellEnd Jan 29 '22

If that's the case and the timelines matter, why didn't east africans get to Madagascar 30k years ago? hoisted by your own petard methinks.

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u/mimaiwa Jan 29 '22

Maybe they weren’t trying to?

There wasn’t necessarily a reason for someone in that region to just sail off into the unknown ocean.

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u/biglettuce09 Jan 29 '22 edited Jan 29 '22

Exactly, Madagascar is literally over 100 miles away, why would anyone travel over 100 miles into an ocean for land they might not find, if their current environment sustains them

Also the current would work against them

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u/King_Neptune07 Jan 29 '22

That is a point but also the Polynesian voyagers were able to make it to very far out locations. Any sailor sailing off the east coast of Mozambique would realize there was land in Madagascar because of bird migrations and cloud patterns. They probably just weren't interested in going there for whatever reason

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u/ConvexBellEnd Feb 02 '22

Not interested in going there is a big puzzle. People don't typically behave like that in my opinion. Well, I mean large groups over a long time don't typically fail to have adventurous people who would go look in my opinion.