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Maritime timeline
Summary
This is a timeline of events in maritime history.
About 50,000 BC: first humans arrive in the islands of Southeast Asia, Papua New Guinea, and Australia, making journeys which still required significant water crossings, despite the land bridges of Sundaland and Sahul.
About 6,000 BC: Earliest evidence of dugout canoes.
5th millennium BC: Earliest known depiction of a shallow-water sailing boat made from bundled reeds from the Ubaid period of Mesopotamia in the Persian Gulf.
About 3000 BC, the Austronesian people migrate from Taiwan to the Philippines, starting the sea-borne Austronesian expansion, which at its furthest extent reached Island Southeast Asia, Micronesia, Polynesia, Island Melanesia, and Madagascar.
About 2,000 BC to 500 AD, a jade maritime trading network is established between the Austronesian settlements in Taiwan and the northern Philippines. This later expanded to a much larger region during the Iron Age (500 BC to 500 AD), encompassing the Sa Huỳnh culture of Vietnam and other areas in Sarawak, eastern Cambodia, and central and southern Thailand. The extent of the maritime trade is evidenced by the double-headed and penannular lingling-o jade artifacts, most of which are sourced from Fengtian nephrite mined in Taiwan and transported by sea to regions around the South China Sea.
About 2,000 BC, Hannu dispatches a fleet along the Red Sea coast to the Land of Punt
1575–1520 BC Dover Bronze Age Boat, oldest known recovered plank vessel
About 1500 BC:
Austronesians develop the fore-and-aft crab claw sail from an earlier V-shaped square sail. They also invent outrigger boat technology from earlier catamaran technology.
Austronesians colonize the Marianas Islands from the island of Luzon in the Philippines. The first long-distance ocean crossing in human history and the first humans to reach Remote Oceania.
Austronesians in Island Southeast Asia establish the Austronesian maritime trade network with Southern India and Sri Lanka, resulting in an exchange of material culture, including boat and sailing technologies and crops like sugarcane, coconuts, and various spices.
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