Reverse engineering the Neolithic boats of the Aegean sea: typological classification, reconstruction and seakeeping assessment
Reverse engineering the Neolithic boats of the Aegean sea: typological classification, reconstruction and seakeeping assessment
The hundreds of recently discovered LN-EBA rock-art images of boats from the Aegean Basin, Greece, highlighted their design and structural details. Additionally, their dating in the transition from LN to EBA offers an uninterrupted continuum of the Neolithic boat evolution. A technologically rigorous methodology was incorporated for their analysis by exploiting the concepts of reverse engineering, climatic design and the tools offered by ship science. This enabled their reconstruction and testing, providing insights into their technical traits, such as stability and resistance. These favour the view that trading, gateway communities and seagoing boats have a more dynamic history in a long Aegean tradition that goes back as far as the Neolithic.
lacunae, prehistoric seafaring, Aegean Basin, ca 5400 / 300 – 3300 / 200 BC, iconographic data, maritime Aegean LN-EBA
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The Royal Institution of Naval Architects
Tzovaras, P.
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Turnock, S.
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Blue, L.
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Vlachopoulos, A.G.
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Sofaer, J.
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2023
Tzovaras, P.
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Turnock, S.
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Blue, L.
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Vlachopoulos, A.G.
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Sofaer, J.
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Tzovaras, P., Turnock, S., Blue, L., Vlachopoulos, A.G. and Sofaer, J.
(2023)
Reverse engineering the Neolithic boats of the Aegean sea: typological classification, reconstruction and seakeeping assessment.
In Historic Ships 2023: Historic Vessels - Sustainable Futures.
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The hundreds of recently discovered LN-EBA rock-art images of boats from the Aegean Basin, Greece, highlighted their design and structural details. Additionally, their dating in the transition from LN to EBA offers an uninterrupted continuum of the Neolithic boat evolution. A technologically rigorous methodology was incorporated for their analysis by exploiting the concepts of reverse engineering, climatic design and the tools offered by ship science. This enabled their reconstruction and testing, providing insights into their technical traits, such as stability and resistance. These favour the view that trading, gateway communities and seagoing boats have a more dynamic history in a long Aegean tradition that goes back as far as the Neolithic.
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lacunae, prehistoric seafaring, Aegean Basin, ca 5400 / 300 – 3300 / 200 BC, iconographic data, maritime Aegean LN-EBA
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