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, sunken sites around the world have delivered troves of artifacts that give archaeologists a deeper understanding of where ancient humans lived and how they potentially traversed treacherous seas to
Now, a team of researchers led by archeologist Juan Gibaja of the Spanish National Research Council has described a quintet of canoes dredged up from a Neolithic lakeshore village near Rome, Italy, that reveal the sophisticated boat-building techniques of seafaring communities in the region.submerged 8 meters beneath the surface of Lake Bracciano, which is connected to the Mediterranean Sea by the River Arrone.
The canoes were built from hollowed-out trees, which grew some time between 5700 and 5100 BCE. Measuring an estimated 11 meters in length, one of the boats – which happened to be made of oak – was considered to be much larger than needed to cross Lake Bracciano. The other four canoes weren't much smaller, from more than 4 meters to 9.5 meters long, with two made of alder, one of poplar, and one of beech, the researchers found.
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