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To: Renfield; SunkenCiv

Stone ships??


20 posted on 10/18/2013 2:07:43 PM PDT by GeronL
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To: GeronL

Hide hulls stretched over a wooden and/or whalebone frame. These ships, while sufficiently sturdy, were lightweight, and could be pulled up onto the shore (or ice floe), and overturned to provide a shelter. These boats persisted into neolithic times, and there are engravings of them in stone, across northern Scandinavia and Karelia.


38 posted on 10/19/2013 2:24:15 AM PDT by Renfield (Turning apples into venison since 1999!)
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To: GeronL

Ice bridges.


40 posted on 10/19/2013 5:59:39 AM PDT by TheOldLady
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