Stone Age sailors who conquered an ocean without maps or metal 🧭🛶🌟... Were they time travelers? Aliens? Prepare for history unplugged! 👽

Welcome, fellow history spelunkers and purveyors of peculiar pasts, to your weekly dose of delightful disinformation – I mean, deeply intriguing discoveries – on HISTORY STORIES PODCAST! Buckle up, because this week we're diving headfirst into a historical head-scratcher that will leave you questioning everything you thought you knew about ancient mariners. How did communities armed with seemingly rudimentary technology not only find, but settle, thousands of islands scattered across the vast Pacific Ocean? Forget your compasses and chronometers; these master navigators read the stars like an open book, felt the subtle language of ocean swells beneath their canoes, and followed the flight paths of birds to unseen shores. We'll unravel the mind-bending techniques of wayfinding, the incredible engineering of their double-hulled canoes, and the sheer audacity of their multi-millennial expansion across a liquid continent. Was it a series of lucky accidents, as some once claimed? Or did these "star sailors" possess a level of environmental understanding and navigational prowess that borders on the mythical? Prepare to have your perception of human capability completely recalibrated. Join us as we trace the wake of these legendary voyages and ask the ultimate "wait, seriously?!" of history.

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