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[QUOTE]Originally posted by DD'eDeN: [QB] Originally posted by Oshun: "It does not mean Africans did not master boat technology. They did, long before others. And it is true that Africans had navigation knowledge as well." --- In my opinion, coracles were the oldest reusable watercraft, simply inverted dome huts (before doorways, a domi.cile was a round shield of wicker and broadleaves), common in Africa and EurAsia. The oldest longboats & canoes were invented in Papua as a result of sago palm processing, the inner pith removed with a proto-adze, leaving the rind in the form of a canoe. From that developed bark canoes (used in Australians, Tasmanians, Yahgan@Tierra del Fuego, Ojibwe@Great lakes, Beothuk@Newfoundland, Piraha@Amazon) and then the true adze was invented to craft wooden dugout canoes and catamarans (katu maram@Tamil: tied (& planed) logs. Reed boats & rafts with floats probably developed along with other longboats. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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