Re: Megalithic shipping and trade routes
Posted: 1:42 pm
Boreades wrote: So - megalithic stone movers would need seriously big strong boats. What we need is some evidence that people in the Quiberon area were producing big cargo vessels that could handle large volumes. The blessed TA's will object at this point, saying there is no record from these megalithic people of how they could have done this. I'm glad to say Oh yes there is. For that, we need to turn to none other than Julius Caesar. See his account in his Gallic Wars, Volume Three, in which he describes the Veneti defending their homeland from the invading Roman Navy.
Was the Roman navy unique? Can't help wondering if these big strong boats were organised into convoys, a sort of caravanserai equivalent on sea. History books generally tell us that the English navy was founded by Henry VIII which seems surprisingly late.