The
Pesse canoe, found in the
Netherlands, is a dugout which is believed to be the world's oldest boat, carbon dated to between 8040 BCE and 7510 BCE. Other dugouts discovered in the Netherlands include two in the province of
North Holland: in 2003, near
Uitgeest, dated at 617-600 BC;
[6] and in 2007, near
Den Oever, dated at 3300-3000 BC.
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Dugouts have also been found in
Germany. In
German, the craft is known as
einbaum (one-tree). In the old Hanseatic town of
Stralsund, three log-boats were excavated in 2002. Two of the boats were around 7,000 years old and are the oldest boats found in the Baltic area. The third boat (6,000 years old) was 12 meters long and holds the record as the longest dugout in the region. The finds have partly deteriorated due to poor storage conditions.
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In 1991, remains of a linden wood log-boat of nearly 6 meters were found at
Männedorf-Strandbad in
Switzerland at
Lake Zürich. The boat has since been dated to be 6,500 years old.
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Many pre-historic dugout boats have been found in
Scandinavia. These boats were used for transport on calmer bodies of water, fishing and maybe occasionally for whaling and sealing. Dugouts require no metal parts, and were common amongst the
Stone Age people in Northern Europe until large trees suitable for making this type of watercraft became scarce. Length was limited to the size of trees in the old-growth forests—up to 12 metres (39 ft) in length. In
Denmark in 2001, and some years prior to that, a few dugout canoes of
linden wood, was unearthed in a large-scale archaeological excavation project in Egådalen, north of
Aarhus. They have been carbon dated to the years 5,210-4,910 BCE and they are the oldest known boats in
Northern Europe.
[16][17] In Scandinavia, later models increased freeboard (and seaworthiness) by lashing additional boards to the side of the dugout. Eventually, the dugout portion was reduced to a solid
keel, and the lashed boards on the sides became a
Lapstrake hull.
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Камо ти налази моноксила из Припратја стари 2000 година који ће да потврде бајку о словенским моноксилима и сеоби из Припратја?