Posted on 12/01/2008 6:08:18 PM PST by SunkenCiv
A dugout probably dating back to the prehistoric age has been discovered the bottom of the Black Sea, National History Museum Director professor Bozhidar Dimitrov told Focus News Agency.
On Friday evening at some 15 miles in the sea, east of Maslen Cape, between the seaside cities of Sozopol and Primorsko, a fishing ship found an enormous dugout, he added.
"You can find nowhere similar dugouts, as well as any type of vessels older than 3 years of age, because water rots the wood away, but in the Black Sea below a certain depth there is dissolved sulphuretted hydrogen, which preserves all organic materials," Dimitrov said.
(Excerpt) Read more at focus-fen.net ...
AP photos, can’t be posted, link only:
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/media/ALeqM5hiZ_h_vFKHa2vNlHSi9v5pPZGCbg?size=s
http://msnbcmedia3.msn.com/j/ap/700c14dd-db89-4f28-a71a-5d0873970a37.hmedium.jpg
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/27968153/displaymode/1176/rstry/27968305/
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“A dugout probably dating back to the prehistoric age”
Probably from the Chicago Cubs world series appearance.
Cool. As are the icons on the wall behind him.
“Prehistoric” covers a lot of ground—apparently there is evidence of metal being used in making the dugout, which might mean Bronze Age or Iron Age. Dugouts were used by the Avar-Slav attackers on Constantinople in A.D. 626, but whether they were the same design as this one, I don’t know.
They played baseball back then???
It was for the forerunner of the Harvard-Yale canoe race.
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