The First Mariners Project
Would you sail across 460 kilometres of shark-infested waters on this bamboo raft, with no support vessel and only stone-age technology to hand (and a satellite phone for emergencies)? A crew of eight from the First Mariners experimental archaeology project are preparing to do just that, setting sail from Rote Island in Indonesia and heading for the north coast of Western Australia. The aim is to replicate an epic crossing that humans must have made 65,000 years ago to reach the lost continent of Sahul what is now Australia, New …
