Pacific Seafarers and Maritime Cultures

Well, to be honest, these articles were kind of difficult for me to read. Not because the language or vocabulary was difficult to understand, but because I just found it to be kind of redundant and a little tiresome. Personally, I thought that it was talking about too much "this place is this many kilometers from this place" and stuff like that. The one thing (which was also the main point of the articles kinda) that I found interesting was that humans were traveling be sea and discovering land a lot sooner than we may have imagined. My favorite part was actually when the author said that "it now appears that Homo erectus reached the Indonesian island of Flores by 750,000 years ago." That part was just so cool to me because I just imagined cavemen braving the seas on their little simple rafts and boats! Overall, it is an interesting concept. I just thought that it dragged on a little.