Neolithic boats

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PeterH Nov 21, 2005 23:02:12
Replying to Hob

I don't know, but there are so many Scandinavian rock pictures of boats that they must have been familiar all over the place. There are two main types - the long lean craft with possible masts that Fitz showed us - they could be forerunners of Nydam and plank built. Then there are the second type with much higher bulwarks and the underwater projections. These I believe to be skin over framework and I have made one of these my tempoary avatar as I don't know how to post a foreign site on TMA.

Years ago, there was a wonderful book on the history of ships from dug-outs to nuclear subs. It is by Bjorn Landstrom and is beautifully illustrated. I have managed to locate a copy via Abebooks and when it arrives, I will look to see what he has to say about Neolithic and Bronze Age boats

H Hob
Hob Nov 21, 2005 23:46:23
Replying to PeterH

>I don't know

Me neither. I was just off on a tangent inspired by a pal of mine who's a shipwright. When the mood takes him, he has been known to pontificate at length on the origins of shipbuilding (He'd robably love that book). Combined with the temporal dislocation of the introduction of metals to different parts of the continent, it just seems very likely that sea going folk could have been responsible for spreading the new technology. They would have likely been traders, and a metal object would have had an element of that 'prestige goods' thing. Anyway, I digress.

Scandanavian boat carvings.

I'm still catching up and digesting this thread, but in the meantime, is this:
http://uk.geocities.com/hobsonish/copenhagen_w1.jpg
is a representation of a boat?

I seem to recall it was billed as such by the panel on the museum wall, but it's a bit of a strange looking boat. Unless perhaps, you interpreted it as the internal frame of a hide/wood/bone construction. Mebbe.