Aussies Find Bronze Age Canoe

The Australian ^ | 1-14-2005

[blam]

GGG Ping.

[rommy]

Very interesting! I didn't know that there was a culture in Southeast Asia that practiced burials in boats.

Although, I suppose it probably was a common practice in many cultures throughout history.

Fascinating. I wish I knew more about the subject.

(Ancient burial practices are incredibly interesting I think, they speak volumes about the way in which those cultures viewed death. I recall that an anthropology teacher I had once said that being buried in a boat indicates a belief that death leads to renewal. I might be mistaken though, I took that class many years ago.)

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks Blam, I'll ping the list later. [singing] "built canoes in the Red River Delta"

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[ASA Vet]

a culture in Southeast Asia that practiced burials in boats.

Asian Vikings?

[Verginius Rufus]

The Sutton Hoo burial ship in England dates from the 7th century, more than 150 years before the first Viking raids on England.

[blam]

Check out this book review for Dr Robert Oppenheimer's excellent book, Eden In The East.

I think there is a strong possibility that proto-Celtic people came from SE Asia. Read the book.

"In Eden in the East Stephen Oppenheimer puts forward the astonishing argument that here in Southeast Asia was the cradle of civilisation that fertilised the great cultures of China, India, Mesopotamia, Egypt and Crete six thousand years ago."

[furball4paws]

Uh Oh... zot time

[blam]

"These scientists can't date stuff. That's how they try to say evolution is true. Carbon dating and stuff is all lies to make people believe in evolution"

Goodbye!

[traderrob6]

It floats??? Guess I's better start reading more than headlines

[furball4paws]

It always amazes me that wooden things can last that long. SE Asia isn't an area where I'd look for old wooden things. But burial makes sense. People with an intimate connection to the sea would certainly look to it as having some mystical aspects and death at sea would be common to them. Makes sense to bury important with some connection to water.

[furball4paws]

Do you have you Oppenheimers mixed up? Certainly the Celts were long before this canoe, though.

[blam]

"It always amazes me that wooden things can last that long. SE Asia isn't an area where I'd look for old wooden things."

Yup...And, you probably wouldn't look in Florida for mummies either. 169 7-8,000 year old mummies...90 have complete brains...And, guess what, they're Europeans.

Bye, Bye Beringia (8,000 Year Old Site In Florida)

[blam]

"Do you have your Oppenheimers mixed up?"

I sure do. I mean Stephen not Robert.

Robert was the commie (along with Claus Fuchs) who was instrumental in giving the Soviets our atomic bomb secrets in the 50's.

[Oztrich Boy]

Technically Sutton Hoo was a buried ship, not a burial ship.

[TexasTransplant]

10m thats a pretty good sized canoe, an entire Family could have been buried in that. The Man/Woman must have been respected.

[SunkenCiv]

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[ElkGroveDan]

A team from the Australian National University (ANU) in Canberra and conservators from the National Museum of Australia excavated a 2.5m section of the boat last month at Dong Xa, about 50 kilometres southeast of the capital Hanoi.

I had no idea Hanoi was the capitol of Australia.