Floating a big idea: Scientists demo ancient use of rafts to transport goods

Oceangoing sailing rafts plied the waters of the equatorial Pacific long before Europeans arrived in the Americas, and carried tradegoods for thousands of miles all the way from modern-day Chile to western Mexico, according to new findings by MIT researchers in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering.

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<p><a href="http://www.physorg.com/news125146350.html">Floating a big idea: Scientists demo ancient use of rafts to transport goods</a></p> <p>Oceangoing sailing rafts plied the waters of the equatorial Pacific long before Europeans arrived in the Americas, and carried tradegoods for thousands of miles all the way from modern-day Chile to western Mexico, according to new findings by MIT researchers in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering.</p>