The Oldest Boat in the World

[@DanDavisHistory]

See the whole video on Nordic Bronze Age sailing now: kzbin.info/www/bejne/gquwkqquhM56gsUsi=uH75GnwK4eRENq-k

[@Masterleechan]

😂😂😂 the earth isn't even that old

[@DS.proudkiwi]

When I was a kid I saw a documentary where some scientists built a reed bundle boat based on old legends and Egyptian pitchers and they proved they could carry allot of weight and we're able to go into open ocean. I also had a old encyclopedia where there was a tribe in Egypt who built their homes from bundles of reeds and the legend was they were descendents of the people who built the boats for the Egyptians back in the day. The scientist were going off information from them as well. Ancient civilization theorist that say it was impossible for Egyptians to transport large stones because the biggest boat ever found in Egypt was a canoe like this . I don't know if the information has been uploaded to the internet but I figure if there's anyone that would be able to do it it's this channel and I figured you would have access to resorces others don't have. I'm not making this stuff up it's out there but just not on internet so people are forgetting, which seems a shame 😢

[@unavailablehandles]

i wish high schools taught prehistory. this stuff is so cool

[@KevinSmith-yh6tl]

Public schools and even universities, are very selective on who's culture they want known about.

[@mindblowing3202]

As a European you are only allowed to learn about the Roman Empire, Columbus and the suffering of Jews. So that later everyone can tell you that you don’t have a history. Of course they will also never mention, that the Romans stole most of their stuff from Germanic, Celtic and Slavic tribes.

[@dschonsie]

Even it was round 40 years ago i can remember my first history lesson, it was about the stone age

[@unavailablehandles]

@@dschonsie mine was too, but it was super basic “people hunted mammoths and crossed into america” stuff. i took a full year each of global history, european history, and us history, and it would’ve been cool to have been able to take a full year of prehistory. i think when it’s taught it’s sort of glazed over as just an introduction to everything else.

[@Tjalie-j6i]

They do. At least here in the Netherlands 🇳🇱 they do. They start at middle-school with that stuff here.

[@SakuraAsranArt]

Look up the ocean-going canoe (waka) used by the New Zealand Maori to travel across the Pacific. These waka were also made by carving out logs but were large enough for whole family groups to live onboard for months as they made the journey to New Zealand.

[@SchoolforHackers]

Yes! Imagine living off the fish you caught every day.

[@susanroutt6690]

The Egvedt girl was buried in a similar tree trunk. It makes me wonder about the various meanings of “bark”. It is a ship. You can embark or disembark across the water or into eternity.

[@princecharon]

I hadn't considered that, but it's an interesting idea.

[@lottalarsson4121]

Swedish navy had a ship called bark.

[@RickD5468]

There is one similar in the national museum in Seoul, same time period.

[@DanDavisHistory]

It's from 5700 BC, Neolithic period in Korea and two thousand years or so younger than this one.

[@Admiralofthedeeps]

As a boatbuilder, I can confirm that boats...are great.

[@voornaam3191]

During the seventies, the museum curators built a replica and tried, if it would be a practical boat. So, they asked the Olympic canoe association, to help testing it. They did need a very experienced canoe person, it proved to be extremely instable, because a tree is as round as a circle, and this tiny boat almost sinks to the brim, when you step in. So, you need an enormous lot of training, to be able to use that Pesse Boat. It is very very small! But they did try it, and their conclusion was, when hunting you can cross a small lake, but you need to be extremely careful and skilled to make it across the water. It is not a beginners boat at all.

[@Admiralofthedeeps]

​@voornaam3191 very interesting. I have always thought they would have stability issues but I hadn't factored in their buoyancy. I can't imagine why these would be chosen over something like a skin boat. I am also skeptical of them crossing rough stretches of sea. If they were to do that then it would have to be on a very calm day considering what you said about them sitting so low.

[@322lukas]

@voornaam3191 Essa assunto me fascina! O tronco usado na experiência foi da mesma madeira do original? Esse detalhe é importante visto que a flutuabilidade depende da densidade da madeira. Não foi encontrada nenhuma evidência de haver algo assemelhado com uma bolina ou outro estabilizador? Existe a possibilidade desta canoa ser uma parte de um barco maior? E dela ser pequena porque seus criadores eram pequenos tbm? Saudações do Brasil.

[@Arkantos117]

Wild to think that there could have been a boat 100,000 years ago but we would likely never know of it.

[@DanDavisHistory]

There were. People crossed open seas to reach islands not accessible otherwise. Neanderthals and Homo Erectus did this.

[@gregor-samsa]

I wonder if Schimpanse or Orang Utang ever build sth like this or could be trained to do?

[@Arkantos117]

@@DanDavisHistory Dang I thought that was a lot more recent and/or related to lower sea levels.

[@GarC170]

According to Irish Monks they used hide boats on the open ocean. Some legends claim they reached the new world around 500ad. Though my guess is maybe they were actually talking about Iceland because the Viking sagas spoke of a colony of Irish monks inhabiting Iceland when the Vikings first discovered it.

[@susanroutt6690]

@@GarC170 Check out Irving Finkel “The Arc Before Noah”. He is the coolest cuneiform expert on the planet, and has an excellent beard!

[@davidturner-ms1ww]

There is pre-columbian canoe found on the shores of the Tombigbee river that looks a lot like this one. It is housed in the Washington County Museum in the basement of the Courthouse.

[@chillpillology]

this is awesome. we will obviously never know who were the first to navigate by boat, but its a great find. I hallucinate that late Homo Erectus were boaters, with no evidence of course. All you have to do is tie a bunch of logs cut by beavers together and you have a fishing raft to spearfish. Unfortunately i don’t think we will ever know.

[@DanDavisHistory]

They must have made boats to reach some of the islands they reached.

[@benmcwilliam1648]

There is a log canoe in Derby museum, which was found near the Trent River , in the gravel pits 🤔👍👍

[@gerardmichaelburnsjr.]

There's a wonderful podcast called The Maritime History podcast it goes into this and even earlier about boat building that is very well attested by paintings and carvings in Mesopotamia. By the time you get to episode 16, you find out how Greek naval technology affected the attack on Troy. Their boats were too narrow to risk bringing horses and chariots, probably the Greeks had captured a few on the Trojan shore and used them as taxi cabs., removing one of the classic objections to the truthfulness of Homer's account.

[@andriesscheper2022]

You might have mentioned the Dover boat as a bronze age find of a dug out cano, enlarged with planks.

[@DS.proudkiwi]

Okay just a point for all the ancient civilizations theorist out there, im on board with allot of your ideas ....BUT when you say the biggest boat ever found in Egypt was a canoe and wasn't possible of transportation of large stones.....you are forgetting that Egyptians built reed boats, around the 90s a bunch of people built a large reed boat and even proved that it could carry allor of weight and that it was possible to take them out into open ocean. There was a tribe back in the day as well that built there homes from bundles of reeds tied together and it was them that helped carry the story of how the Egyptians built boats like how they built there homes. There was some information about them in a old encyclopedia i had as a kid and I remember watching a documentary on the scientists building and sailing the reed boat when I was a kid . Maybe the knowledge hasn't been uploaded to the internet but it is out there and maybe people are forgetting about it when they come up with their theories...... this channel would be the channel to do a video on if there was time and resources you could find on the subject

[@ALFarrell-kv6ok]

Great to know they enjoyed kayaking that far back.

[@MarcusAgrippa390]

Yes this was known as the UGG Floaty Log, and was the first purpose built troop transport made by the Neanderthal Confederation in the War of 3812 BC. It remained active in the war until it was sunk 2 months after its construction by an unfortunate incident involving a hippopotamus 🦛 and a party hat. All hands (2) went down with the ship.

[@jrgordon47]

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[@comfortablynumb9342]

Oh that's gotta be the canoe grandma had to paddle to school 5 miles every morning 😂 Seriously, what a cool find. It's amazing that there are still people using boats like that in the Amazon and Indonesia.

[@SUBHADEEPBHATTACHARYA-y4g]

Fascinating history

[@zaxmaxlax]

amazonian canoes are done like that but streched with fire to get larger

[@YamiKisara]

How come the oldest tools and skeletal remains come from Europe and the Middle East, lands that have been heavily farmed and industrialized through millenia, yet we're told to believe it all started in Africa, when barely anything comes from below Egypt?

[@doredam8919]

The oldest tools and skeletal remains come from Olduvai Gorge and east Africa in general. I don't know what you mean

[@Flourre]

But they do come from Africa, you just can't research

[@MaxMustermann-bm7qt]

Pretty cool, that they could prove that is a boat and not just for water for animals. I would not even know what to look at to make such a differentiation.

[@DanDavisHistory]

Well, this was many thousands of years before there were domesticated animals in the Netherlands.

[@TheLRider]

Isn't it lovely being an expert 😂👍​@@DanDavisHistory

[@HarryWHill-GA]

Don't touch it or the Dutch will be very angry.

[@mikolajdubiel1384]

That looks like Pitt Rivers collection?

[@helixator3975]

Could be a wooden boat or, given it was found in the Netherlands, it could be one half of a really big pair of clogs.

[@Tjalie-j6i]

That's not old ! That's character. What do you mean it looks dilapidated ? That's Patina, that is.

[@keeksputels1851]

How do they not roll over though????

[@Tjalie-j6i]

Yep, made by my many times great grandfather 💪Dutch🇳🇱.

[@tinycockjock1967]

Of course it’s in the netherlands 💀

[@mattmatty4670]

Wow boat

[@mrb4461]

As a Dutch, im proud of it

[@EdwardVonKhil]

Ok, Mac.

[@johnhagemeyer8578]

It's amazing how education in the US. Is so lacking about everything before 1776. It's like that is when the whole world started. I mean, George Washington crossed the Delaware River, and that's a big deal. One man One River In a boat.😅

[@TheLRider]

And I fear that that shapes so much of what US has become.. In the UK when I was at school any prehistoric standing stones or barrows etc were all Roman.. In other words pre history did not exist, as it would have forced the existence of us Celts. 😂

[@kayleighllyn8253]

...uiteindelijk bleek het een trog te zijn, een varkenstrog😅

[@hondaryder3779]

De Nederlanders, bootbouwers sinds mensenheugenis.

[@Surferant666]

Far row Faro Pharoah Pharoes

[@marcgorter8651]

So, the oldest known boat in the world is from my country, not half an hour away from where I live, and they don't let us know that in history classes? Kom op, man.