![]() ![]() ![]() The earliest Egyptian boats were rafts made of papyrus wooden boats did not replace rafts until the Gerzean/Naqada II Period. ![]() Rafts were made where wood was available but not large enough to carve into dugouts and they could also be made from reeds. These include kayaks and umiaks, coracles and currachs.īark canoes were made by stretching bark over wooden frames, and were used by Native Americans in North America. They were made by stretching skin or leather over frames of wood or bone. Skin boats dominated seafaring in places that were scarce on wood, including the arctic and subarctic. Seafaring is found around the world, and many of these techniques are still in use today. The earliest archaeological evidence comes from dugout canoes found in peat bogs in Pesse, the Netherlands and dates to around 8000 years ago.
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