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Although “Row, Row, Row Your Boat” wasn’t published until the 1800s, people were paddling across oceans way before that.
Stone Age folks made their way from Taiwan to south-west Japan more than 30,000 years ago. This was likely done by island-hopping their way over on bamboo rafts.
Researchers from the University of Tokyo suspect that such trips were undertaken deliberately. Regional ocean currents wouldn’t have naturally swept the rafts in that direction.
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