This is the best thread ever.
Posted on 06/18/2023 6:16:52 AM PDT by SunkenCiv
Marine archaeologists began studying the 39-foot-long vessel—nicknamed the "Zambratija boat" because of its location in the Bay of Zambratija—after hearing reports from local fishermen in 2008. Researchers were surprised to learn the vessel dated to between the 12th and 10th centuries B.C.E, which they say makes it the oldest entirely hand-sewn boat in the Mediterranean.
Workers painstakingly constructed the vessel by using flexible fibers to stitch together pieces of wood. While that technique was popular around the world both before and after the introduction of metal components, researchers say the Zambratija boat is unique because it's a rare surviving example of the "ancient naval tradition" of the Istria and Dalmatia regions, says the French National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS) in a statement, per Google Translate.
The removal process will begin on July 2. Divers will carefully move pieces of the boat, which they'll gently place into a custom-made support structure.
Once the boat is on land, the team will reconstruct it—and begin studying it up close. In their initial examinations, they'll try to more accurately date the vessel, determine its materials and learn more about the techniques used to shape its wood.
(Excerpt) Read more at smithsonianmag.com ...
Tough.
I hadn’t even heard of hand-sewn boats. Amazing!!! Thank you!!
It should buff out.
Probably the main threat to sewn boats was a rip tide.
Hey! Neat! Granny knitted me a boat!
Maybe someone needed the knitted boat to look for pearls.
“Probably the main threat to sewn boats was a rip tide.”
Ba da bing!
5.56mm
This is the best thread ever.
Clinker-built ships of the Vikings were often sewn boats.
[snip] In the North – both before and after the Viking Age – wooden boats have been built using a particular technique, which is characterised by the way in which the longitudinal planks overlap each other at their outer edge, where they are either sewn or riveted together. [/snip]
Thanks for the link!!
My pleasure.
Keep us posted, please.
Love the topic of old ships and boats!
Will do, and same here. Most of the perishable stuff from antiquity and prehistory vanished long ago. Ancient and even prehistoric watercraft were lost in largely undocumented events, and yet their traces sometimes survive in some form and quantity.
Plus, y'know, boats.
The ancient skipper had the same problems as modern one -- he's got the expense of acquisition and maintenance of the ship, plus the risk of operating it, and his idiot buddies show up with one small jug of wine and expect to be greeted as heroes...
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