The fact that people crossed this in an arctic climate with Stone Age technology is insane. In some ways it sounds harder than trying to be an early settler of the Moon or Mars with today’s technology — at least in that case you would have medicine, climate control, nutritional science, etc.
The Polynesian settlement of the archipelago is pretty hard core too. Long range long duration ocean voyages with canoes and star navigation. They made it to f’ing Hawaii.
Of course I’m sure many people died in all these migrations… which makes it even crazier that people did it. Things like the Trail of Tears were forced but I’m not aware of anyone forcing this.
Makes me think about what wimps most of us (including myself) are today.
The Polynesian settlement of the archipelago is pretty hard core too. Long range long duration ocean voyages with canoes and star navigation. They made it to f’ing Hawaii.
Of course I’m sure many people died in all these migrations… which makes it even crazier that people did it. Things like the Trail of Tears were forced but I’m not aware of anyone forcing this.
Makes me think about what wimps most of us (including myself) are today.