Wired has an article on ancient artifacts, and how moderns learn about them by examining/recreating them.
The photo is from 2007, when 65 men and women piloted a reconstruction on a 1,000 mile voyage from Denmark to Dublin, Ireland, using a reproduction of a 100 foot long Viking ship.
not mentioned was when some local Filipinos rebuilt and sailed a reproduction of a Malay type balangay ship. Story here. Yeah, SEAsia tends to get overlooked in a lot of history books.
And then there is this factoid: Maybe the reason that there are so few stone tools in SEAsia was because man learned to make knives etc. from bamboo...
headsup Archeoblog.
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