The Duyfken Project: an Age of Discovery ship reconstruction as experimental archaeology

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It is possible that most or all boats and rig-types used in prehistoric times in the South-East Asia-Pacific region have completely disappeared from the record, and that those recorded by Europeans in the 17th century may have been relatively recent innovations. The purpose of this paper is to introduce to the literature a new source of information on ancient boat and rig designs. This source is the information encoded in rock-art depictions of watercraft. This paper provides a technical appraisal of 18 images of watercraft from the Tutuala region of East Timor.

Section: Hull Profilesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Rock Art: A Potential Source of Information about Past Maritime Technology in the South-East Asia-Pacific Region

Lape

O’Connor

Burningham

2007

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“…The use of statistical techniques to analyse ratios of proportions measured from iconography is described in Burningham and Jong (1997) and in more detail in Winter and Burningham (2001).…”

Section: Design Of the Spar Plan And Sail Planmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Aspects of the research to design the ship are presented in Burningham and Jong (1997) and Winter and Burningham (2001) while the construction as a programme of experimental archaeology is described in Burningham (in press). …”

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confidence: 99%

Learning to sail theDuyfkenreplica

Burningham¹

2001

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“…The integration of the construction of Morgawr within the exhibition provided museum visitors with an interactive display of a Bronze Age‐type sewn‐plank boat under construction. Funding for the reconstruction of a Bronze Age‐type sewn‐plank boat would not have been made available were it not for the educational (or ‘Knowledge Transfer’) focus of the project, something that has also been the case in other maritime archaeology reconstruction projects (for example Burningham and De Jong, : 277).…”

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Morgawr: an experimental Bronze Age-type sewn-plank craft based on the Ferriby boats

Noort

Cumby

Blue

et al. 2014

This paper reports on the construction of a full-scale Bronze Age-type sewn-plank boat based on the Ferriby boats. The boat, which was named Morgawr, was constructed in the National Maritime Museum Cornwall in Falmouth, England, during 2012 and the first months of 2013, as part of a larger exhibition in the museum. This paper provides the background and context of the project, describes the process of building the craft, and reflects in particular on differences between Morgawr and the 'hypothetical reconstruction of a complete sewn-plank boat' published in 1990 by Ted Wright and John Coates which formed the basis for this project. © 2014 The AuthorsKey words: National Maritime Museum Cornwall, rocker, withies, keelplank, cleats.T he sewn-plank boats from England and Wales constructed between c.2000 and 800 cal BC are the oldest-known planked vessels from Atlantic Europe. Their construction represents a remarkable development in regional boatbuilding technology. Using planks rather than hides or a hollowed-out treetrunk brought about three concurrent innovations: first, in the absence of any nails or treenails, planks were sewn or stitched together with organic fibres of yew or willow; second, an intricate system of integrated cleats and slots or transverse timbers was employed to ensure stiffness of the bottom of the hull; third, caulking was used for the first time, made from woodland mosses.None of the sewn-plank craft discovered in England and Wales to date are complete or near-complete. The remains of Ferriby 1, the Dover Boat and the Brigg 'raft' are substantial, to the point that their hull shape, size, performance and the seaworthiness of the original craft have generated extensive discussions and debates (for