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>Really interesting is, that that they came there by boat, but lost the ability to build boats or stopped doing so for whatever reasons, that they could not eve
by aivisol 3y ago
>Really interesting is, that that they came there by boat, but lost the ability to build boats or stopped doing so for whatever reasons, that they could not even travel between the islands anymore.
Maybe due to lack of access to iron?
- lukan 3y agoPossible, but there were tribes who could do sea faring only by simple wooden canoes. The polynesians for example went even so far as New Zealand by wooden boats only. https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Datei:Model_of_outrigger_boat,_Marshall_Islands,_1891_-_Staatlichen_Museums_f%C3%BCr_V%C3%B6lkerkunde_M%C3%BCnchen_-_DSC08309_(cropped).JPG https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Datei:Model_of_outrigger_boat,... And the canarian islands are really close to each other, you could probably do island hopping by clinging to some wood (but the currents and waves can be nasty there).
- aivisol 3y agoI think as it was mentioned in the article it was mostly due to lack of need to travel: they were poor and didn’t have things to trade to justify seagoing. And then the other additional factors: lack of iron, the fact that shores were less habitable than mountains ( lack of freshwater), wind and currents between islands.
- lukan 3y agoBut travel between the islands is still something one would think is worth it. And if it is just to prevent incest.
- wolverine876 3y agoCuriosity, or when food runs low, or for a million reasons. And boats are not only for travel between islands; there's also fishing, or to retrieve that thing that washed out to sea in the latest storm, etc etc.
- usrusr 3y agoDoable, but when every area that isn't up in the clouds is properly deforested at some point the economics stop making sense.