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The first true ocean-going boats were invented by the Austronesian peoples, using technologies like multihulls, outriggers, crab claw sails, and tanja sails. This enabled the rapid spread of Austronesians into the islands of both the Indian and the Pacific Oceans, known as the Austronesian expansion.
This is a list of the oldest ships in the world which have survived to this day with exceptions to certain categories. The ships on the main list, which include warships, yachts, tall ships, and vessels recovered during archaeological excavations, all date to between 500 AD and 1918; earlier ships are covered in the list of surviving ancient ships.
The Pesse canoe is the world's oldest-known boat. Carbon dating indicates that the boat was constructed during the early mesolithic period between 8040 BC and 7510 BC. [ 1 ] It is now in the Drents Museum in Assen , Netherlands .
White boat [d] 1870–1831 BC [11] [13] Solar ship Ancient Egypt Egypt (Sharm El-Sheikh Museum) 32.8 ft (10.0 m) Appleby logboat — 1500–1300 BC Logboat: Prehistoric Britain: United Kingdom (North Lincolnshire Museum) — Dover Bronze Age Boat: 1500 BC [14] Seagoing boat Prehistoric Britain United Kingdom : 31 ft (9.4 m) [e] Hanson Log Boat ...
[11] [12]: 26 One of the oldest known boats to be found is the Pesse canoe, and carbon dating has estimated its construction from 8040 to 7510 BCE. The Pesse canoe is the oldest physical object that can date the use of watercraft, but the oldest depiction of a watercraft is from Norway.
1575–1520 BC Dover Bronze Age Boat, oldest known recovered plank vessel; About 1500 BC: Austronesians develop the fore-and-aft crab claw sail from an earlier V-shaped square sail. They also invent outrigger boat technology from earlier catamaran technology. [7] [8] Austronesians colonize the Marianas Islands from the island of Luzon in the ...
The earliest boats may have been either dugouts or hide boats. [2]: 11 The oldest recovered boat in the world, the Pesse canoe, found in the Netherlands, is a dugout made from the hollowed tree trunk of a Pinus sylvestris that was constructed somewhere between 8200 and 7600 BC.
The earliest boats in Egypt were made during the time of the Old Kingdom where they were used along the Nile River. Because of the lack of wood, boats were made with bundled papyrus reeds. The boats were 25 meters long, two to three meters wide, and sixty centimeters deep which allowed seating for 30 rowers with one to two rudder oars.