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| An artist's impression of how the channels could have been left in the ground at Monmouth |
Archaeologists believe they have found the remains of a Bronze Age boat building community in Monmouth.
Monmouth Archaeological Society started to unearth new findings when work started on Parc Glyndwr housing estate two years ago.
The research is being published in a book called The Lost Lake.
Author and archaeologist Stephen Clarke, 71, said: "I started digging here with the society 50 years ago - I wish I had another 50 years."
He said finds had helped the group to better understand the ancient history of Monmouth long before Roman times.
The town is served by three rivers but the group said it had evidence to suggest it was actually built on what was a huge prehistoric lake which became a home to hunter gatherers.
Over millennia it drained away and finds including charcoal from fires, flint shards and pottery from the Stone Age, Iron Age and Roman times have been found by the town's professional and amateur archaeologists. [...] bbc.co.uk
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Ni el catamarán ni el balancín se han documentado nunca en Europa y en general se creen invenciones propias de los pueblos austronesios (malayo-polinesios). Me sorprende mucho esta interpretación de los canales.
Las chozas de corte paleolítico dibujadas junto a los canales son también muy poco creíbles.
Mi primera impresión es que se podría quizá tratar de huecos para carriles similares a los usados en los modernos astilleros, con el hueco del medio quizá para albergar la forma aquilada del barco. Si estoy en lo cierto, que no lo sé, estaríamos hablando de barcos mucho más grandes que los dibujados, pero de un único casco, como corresponde a la tradición europea.
Pero a saber.
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