When you look into what is happening with the thousand-y-o trees, you will find that it isn't really the original trees that are of this age. It's the "children" of much younger trees that have happened to take up residence aroung the circumference of their "parents."
You people who think that there weren't boats in the distance past, that were of the size of some of our medium and large boats, are too dense to realize that people back then were much smarter than you give them credit for.
I am sure some Bronze Age people were smarter than some people today, as evidenced by the posts in this thread.
But in the end, all of them wiped their asses with leaves while burning cows to appease their delusions. LOL.
Of course they were smarter. They kept the earth healthy by technologically working with it rather than against it as we do. That's part of the reason why they lived for as many a over 900 hundred years. Our doctors and researchers don't have a clue as to how to get us to live even 200 years.
Earth was so perfect back then that they only drooled liquid fertilizer from their rear ends. Everything they ate was used in their bodily systems. The little they drooled helped the plants to grow.
I don't know why I waste my time with you. You are so mixed up that a forum the size of this one, full of the best basic knowledge, would barely have a chance of penetrating your ignorance.