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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…
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Archaeologist distinguish between true tea; & herbal infusions, like plants, bark, mushrooms, or spices boiled in water
< home # store # services # articles # game # app #contact > During the neolithic, and before pottery, people could still boil plants. A common method included: Hearth heating with stonesWater was kept in animal skins, wooden bowls, bark containers, and heated stones dropped in to boil. Direct boiling in pottery occurred after.…
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Bitumen is a naturally occurring asphalt. Composed of heavy hydrocarbons. It forms when crude oil near the surface, loses lighter components, through evaporation and biodegradation. It leaves a thick, sticky residue
< home # store # services # articles # game # app #contact > Many thousands of years ago, humans encountered bitumen naturally seeping from the groundRather than “discovering” it through digging. Or, like drilling in modern times. Bitumens use comes early. 200 thousand years ago: At Campitello QuarryNeanderthals used bitumen. They mixed it with…
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True archaeological pan-pipes appear relatively late compared with flutes. It could be because bone, reed & bamboo decay easily
home # store # services # articles # game # app #contact > Bone pan-pipes are multiple tubes bound togetherWhen blown across the top. A group of tubes at different lengths; produces different pitch’s. Neolithic pan-pipes were made from materials such as bone, reed, or bambooEach pipe produces one pitch; and the set produces a…
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People agree, drums came first, because the body itself can make clapping, & stomping sounds. Plus without modification, rocks or logs can be struck & create sound. During the neolithic, drums may have evolved universally
home # store # services # articles # game # app #contact > Often drums were made from materials that decay quickly (wood, hide, fiber). So some of the earlier ones have been hard to detectIt’s established that some are much older than evidence or remains. There are sometimes skin or fiber residue remainsThe drum…
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The existence of musical bows, or single-string instruments derived from hunting bows. Are likely considered the ancestors of harps, lyres, & guitars. They probably date to the neo & paleolithic time periods
< home # store # services # articles # game # app #contact > One of the strongest archaeological hints that stringed instruments existed tens of thousands of years ago, is found in France at Trois‑Frères caveThe ‘sorcerer’ figurine has been dated to more than 10 thousand years ago and maybe shown with a musical…
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