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The Pesse canoe is the world’s oldest known boat, dating back to the Mesolithic period approximately 8040 to 7510 BC (1)
< home # store # services # articles # game # app #contact > In 1955 near the village of Pesse, in the Netherlands, during the construction of a highway the canoe was discovered It is made from a hollowed-out trunk of a Scots pine tree (2) It’s about 3 meters (117 inches) long; and…
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“Pirogues de Bercy” refer to a series of neolithic dugout canoes discovered in Bercy, a district in Paris
< home # store # services # articles # game # app #contact > Discovered along the Seine river. In the Bercy district. The pirogues were found during construction work in Paris, in the 1990sArchaeologists excavated the site, revealing several well-preserved dugout canoes. They dated back to the neolithic period, around 6800 to 6300 years…
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A early craft of economic importance. Whole or half log trunks; bamboo or reed could be lashed together to make rafts. 10,000 years ago during the neolithic time period
< home # store # services # articles # game # app #contact > A early craft of economic importance. Whole or half log trunks; bamboo or reed could be lashed together to make rafts 10,000 years ago during the neolithic time period 1) ConstructionMultiple whole ծառ trunks (pine, oak, poplar, alder were common in…
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In the lower Yangzi wetlands, a 8,000-year-old Kuahuqiao dugout may represent China’s earliest technology for constructing canoes
< home # store # services # articles # game # app #contact > Kuahuqiao is located at Xianghucun in Xiaoshan district, Hangzhou city, Zhejiang province In the early 1970s, a large part of the site was discovered, when a local brick factory destroyed a large part of the site Included in the archaeological assemblage…
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Used for fishing, river transport, coastal seafaring, & colonization. A dugout (or, Greek, monoxylon: “single tree”) is a boat, made by hollowing a single log, using water, fire + tools
< home # store # services # articles # game # app #contact > 1) Materials & Resource GatheringTree Selection (Regional Differences)Levant / Anatolia / Greece Oak, alder, poplar, beech (documented at La Marmotta). Selection based on straight trunk, low cracking or repair tendency, & buoyancy vs durability Egypt Native woods: acacia, sycamore figAlso imported…
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A reed boat is a bundled-watercraft made by tying together buoyant plant stalks, (typically reeds or papyrus), into a shaped hull
< home # store # services # articles # game # app #contact > Key advantage: abundant, renewable materials where timber is scarce. Engineered through tension 1) Materials and resource gathering, includes different reed types and regional sourcing like papyrus (cyperus papyrus). Found in deep marshes, where it is dense and easily harvested. Like in…
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A plank boat is built from multiple shaped wooden boards, joined together. Rather than hollowed from a single log (dugout); or, bundled (reed boat)
< home # store # services # articles # game # app #contact > Emerging in the later neolithic and bronze ages were the plank boats It enabled larger vessels for more secure open sea travel. Using more complex rigging and for cargo transport 1) Materials and resources had cedar (cedrus libani), pine and oak…