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culture and heritage

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that moment. Let’s go back in

time to the Upper Paleolithic. A Cro-Magnon is on

the bank of a river, probably fishing. Suddenly he

sees, passing in front of him, a tree trunk floating,

washed away. It draws his attention because he

has never seen anything like that before. He knows

that the trunks are heavy and therefore doesn´

t un-

derstand why it does not sink in water. Finally, the

trunk moves on and also our Cro-Magnon. Years lat-

er, another of our ancestors observes a similar scene,

but this time the trunk is stuck between two rocks.

Bolder than the other one, he walks over to inspect

and climb on it. Immediately, the trunk dislodges

and continues its path on water, with a more than

terrifiedmanon it. Voila! Navigation is born. Maybe it

didn´

t happen quite like this, but it sounds good.

Undoubtedly, navigation was born before the

first cities. The oldest known canoe was found in

Pesee, Netherlands, and is more than 8,000 years

old, which indicates that when humans began

to settle in large villages on the banks of rivers,

they already knew and dominated this art. Had it

not been so, what would’ve been the point of liv-

ing near water? This idea is strengthened when

we analyze the Sumerian culture, the oldest one

known, and realize that their ships roamed the

Tigris and Euphrates connecting large cities and

transporting their goods to trade between them

- It was probably them who invented sails to har-

ness the power of wind. The same can be noted

in the other major early cultures: China, India,

Egypt and Mesoamerica.

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