Plankboat skeuomorphs in Bronze Age logboats: a Scandinavian perspective

• Autores: Ole Thirup Kastholm
• Localización: Antiquity, ISSN 0003-598X, Vol. 89, Nº 348, 2015, págs. 1353-1372
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • Logboats are widely known as the earliest form of water transport and continue to be used today. How then can such a ubiquitous phenomenon be useful in demonstrating maritime networks between distant places? A reassessment of the European, and especially Scandinavian, examples of logboats has revealed that technological and decorative aspects of their design demonstrate a connection between Western Europe, Scandinavia and Britain and Ireland. Here the details of this skeuomorphism are used to argue for a North Atlantic, European maritime network in the Bronze Age.