Japan-Taiwan team replicates hypothetical ancient sea migration

A team of Japanese and Taiwanese paddlers from two museums on Tuesday successfully replicated a hypothetical human migration between Taiwan and Okinawa about 30,000 years ago, by arriving at a southern Japanese island in a dugout canoe.During the two-day, 200-kilometer voyage from Taitung County, southeastern Taiwan, to Yonaguni Island in Okinawa Prefecture, the team of five paddlers -- one Taiwanese and four Japanese including a woman -- relied solely on the stars, sun and wind for their bearings.They departed Taiwan on Sunday afternoon in their 7.6-meter-long, 70-centimeter-wide wooden ca…READ FULL ARTICLE