Taiwanese Seafarers of the Pacific
A History of Mankind (11)
Daring trips on longboats around the Baltic Sea, the Black Sea and the Eastern Mediterranean pale by comparison with the start of the greatest seaborne migrations ever, just before 3000 BC, on the coast of Taiwan, a smallish island of huge importance in human history.[1]
The island had been first settled by stone-age hunters and gatherers well before the…
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