OCEAN HIGHWAYS

OCEAN HIGHWAYS

The above picture of ABORA III shows a replica of a boat 6,000 years ago when the oceans  were highways.  The boat in this picture sailed the length of the Mediterranean, twice, and nearly 2,000 miles of the Atlantic before it came apart in heavy seas.  The damage to the ship may have been caused more by poor human decisions than by the weakness of the ship.

The Abora III was built from a design 6,000 years old.  The Maritime Archaic people left similar artifacts on both sides of the Atlantic that are estimated to be more than 6,000 years old.

Most sea travel at that time was by row boat using oars. People in Europe rode to America with twenty days rowing time by the northern sea way. The southern seaway had a strong current from Africa to the Carribean. When the boats were in the Carribean travel was a matter of rowing from island to island. There was no stage greater than six days at sea. The sails you see on the Abora were used to return to Europe with the prevailing winds and current. The path back to Europe was through the Azores. 

A common misconception by Europeans of the later age was that travel to America was accomplished by sail rather than oars. Columbus's exploration by sails was believed to be a great achievement. It was, but Columbus was not the first  person from Europe to reach America many Norse people and African people had made the trip by row boat.

Barry Cunliffe shows in A Very Short Introduction to the Celts (page 19),   a map of Western Europe and the west half of the Mediterranean where he has sketched a 50-100 mile zone inland along all coasts.  Cunliffe makes a hypothesis that the people in the zones along the coast spoke a common language at one time long ago.  This situation implies that language and beliefs traveled by boat.

Reider T. Sherwin, in The Viking and the Red Man, compiled over 15,000 comparisons to show evidence that the Algonquin Language and Old Norse were similar language.  “Algonquin” is the name given by French explorers to the language they encountered in America in the 17^th century.  But the oldest American history reports that the American people, who were Norse, called themselves “Lenape” in the 12^th century.  So the correct name for the American language is “Lenape.”   “Lenape,” “Algonquin” or “Old Norse” are words meaning the same language.

Lenape may have been the language of the sea people, who resettled America after the Big Event.

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