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andmaybegayer posts:
Bronze age ship discovered
look inside
made of wood
sophia-epistemia replies:
it’s made of wood because all the bronze was used to make the age, not the ships. obviously
andmaybegayer replies:
‘well duh’ gif from American Psycho
my favorite bronze age ship is Gilgamesh x Enkidu
That’s less of a ship and more of a “it’s stated in the story itself”
I mean, personally I don’t love any of my bros like I would my wife… That’s just me, but you do you.
Bronze age defined weapons, fyi. Not sure if ships used nails then, but wood joinery and wood was an allowed building material.
Joke explainer here all week.
Pegged mortise and tenion caulked with bitumen from surface oil/tar.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phoenician_joint used well into the iron age
Earlier were held together by rope like the https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sewn_boat or the https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lashed-lug_boat and caulked with vegetation. They were essentially “let’s take a raft and engineer it into a boat.”
Key point for both is you usually needed bronze tools to work wood like this. You could plane with stone axes easily enough to make a canoe but you couldn’t really make a mortise and tenion and sewing a boat together was damn hard with stone and bone tools(though there were stone bow drills with flint bits and some pretty damn impressive users, it’s how they made strung beads for early trade in the neolithic and late mesolithic).
In my town in Mexico, there a street named “Calle Once” (Eleventh St.) that crosses an avenue and turns into “Calle Bronce” (Bronze St.).
Obviously the bronze just sunk while the wood floated.
Makes cents
