Mains'l Haul Prehistory.

Reading the short essay gave a lot of interesting information about certain objects that the Native American people contributed to the way they lived. When we think about how certain objects and how places came to the world, we just tend to think "oh the people that were here first came up with it, so why should I bother with what the history behind it, right"?! WRONG! we shouldn't just take things for granted like most people do, but try to explore what something that has came to the world and made a difference in peoples lives mean! The reading has alot of interesting facts about what the archaeological background of the maritime history of the pacific is, what deeper histories  are affiliated with it, and how the pacific was the scene of some very interesting migrations. 

In an island in Southeast Asia about 750,000-800,000 years ago there were tons of seafaring in the pacific, by the Homo Sapiens. There is tons of information about Pleistocene seafaring that we see in many regions of the world. They came about in the bigger water barriers such as Eastern Asia, Austrailia, New Guinea, and Melanesia. Im not quite sure, but is the pleistocene seafaring go through the islands itself or the countries and its surroundings? They had a route indeed that they had to follow, but did this require groups of men, how exactly did this term come about?

Coastal Migration theory has been found in the Pacific Coast of the Americas. This has been around for about 14,000 years? that is what the reading was trying to imply, but didn't quite make sense to me. I am still a little confused about what exactly the term Pleistocene is...After reading the Polynesians in the Pacific, the migrations had reached from seas, and had longer voyages. When reading this part of the essay it mentions about the oceanic migration and how people in the Islands closest to the Indian and Pacific ocean are more of an area that had gone through the process. 

Later in the reading, he talks about Watercraft technology. "Watercraft must maintain buoycany and stability"(Haul). The watercraft was made in a very interesting way, as we can tell by in the picture, it had displacements of water, wind drif, and the ability to cut through waves! Reminds me of a canoe for say! Native American culture respected the construction of this object well. Other words of the boat in todays day is known as Umiak and Kayak.

 I think these canoes were very useful to the Indians in such a way of transporting themselves from one side to the other along with the objects. What ever they had to get done. Whether it was bark canoes which consisted of wood cutting and stripping trees and making holes to keep it together, dugout canoes which had to do with axes and adzes for the heavy woods, or plank canoes which used wedges for the splitting of the wood, chisels, and abrahers. the tools that went into making the watercraft, it shows how it was made and how it end up being prehistory.