#18. Early Communism and the Ocean pt2. "How old is the invention of the boat really?"

Today we go deeper in our exploration,  we will look at the history of navigation and maritime architecture, some questions from the previous episode will be answered and some new will be posited. There are plenty of mysteries here like cave paintings of boats from the deep ice age, maps that seem to understand longitude long before the chronometer and captain cooks voyages.  There is the peculiarity of the Japanese current and the story of how Europeans first came to Polynesia and why the western gates of the pacific where closed for almost 500 years after Marco Polo. Far East Pottery that predates "pre-pottery neolithic" of "the cradle of civilization" no matter how counter intuitive that sounds. There is an old indigenous canoe from British Colombia that sailed around the world in 1901. I will try to tie some of it together by an continued elaboration of my own theory and a double edged critique of the hegemons as well as the alternative historians and archaeologists. Here the monopoly knowledge production of Cambridge University will take another blow which they might not recover from. After all not to many are looking for a proto-communist world society with painted sails before the Younger Dryas so I promise you unique good times!