Humans navigated the seas since 130,000 BCE

According to this AP report, stone evidence found in Crete indicates that humans navigated the open Mediterranean sea as early as 130,000 years ago.

NPR, has  the same story published with photographs of some of the stone tools that led to the conclusion that humans were capable of navigating the open sea much earlier than originally thought.

The stone tools unearthed in Plakias and Preveli caves are attributed to Homo heidelbergensis and Homo erectus species, and they are the first evidence of human habitation of Crete from the early stone age.

Here are the images released by the Hellenic Ministry of Culture: