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Torres Strait islanders on a bamboo raft, 1906
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- Torres Strait islanders on a bamboo raft, 1906
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To get from mainland Asia to Near Oceania at least 10 water crossings of 10–100 kilometres were required. Somehow people crossed these stretches of water, but no remnants of their vessels have been found. In the period 50,000–25,000 BCE knives had been invented but adzes, which could be used to hollow out logs to make canoes, had not. Although it is speculation, it seems likely that the giant bamboo that grows in the region was lashed together to form rafts.
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- 4 March 2009
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- Auckland War Memorial Museum Tamaki Paenga Hira
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