RE: Why I Love Reading the Sunday Paper
August 22, 2011 at 11:47 am
(This post was last modified: August 22, 2011 at 11:53 am by Minimalist.)
Over at Archaeologica we frequently ( once or twice a year ) lapse into a discussion of ancient boats. We've got one group who insists early man walked every where and others (myself included) who maintain that Homo Erectus must have had seafaring capability. Walking overland is not a day at the park without roads or bridges. The skin frame boat makes the most sense or even a hollowed log with an outrigger for balance.
The other obvious problem with building a large craft in the Early Bronze Age is that you would only have early Bronze Age tools to do it with. In Egypt, at roughly the same time that the morons think the whole world was flooded the Egyptians were building the pyramids ( and kept on building them even though they were all drowned!) with copper chisels and stone hammers.
Archaeologists have discovered the Abydos Fleet in Egypt a collection of 14 boats made of wood planking and buried...for some reason...in the desert which is the only thing that preserved them.
http://www.abc.se/~pa/mar/abydos.htm
Entire careers will be spent studying this find but the boats themselves are at most 75 feet long and 7-10 feet wide with a very shallow draft which indicates that they were for river use.
Aside from that we have the Giza Boat Pits which led to the finding of a much larger boat of 142 feel in length with a 16 foot beam but still only a depth of 5 feet which again indicates river use rather than sea-going.
http://www.ancient-egypt.co.uk/giza_boat/index.htm
This was also planked and this time it was made of Lebanese Cedar for sure but it is 1/5 the size of the alleged ark and again designed for use on the rather sluggish Nile - not for surviving the greatest storm of all time.
The ark story is simply technologically absurd.
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The other obvious problem with building a large craft in the Early Bronze Age is that you would only have early Bronze Age tools to do it with. In Egypt, at roughly the same time that the morons think the whole world was flooded the Egyptians were building the pyramids ( and kept on building them even though they were all drowned!) with copper chisels and stone hammers.
Archaeologists have discovered the Abydos Fleet in Egypt a collection of 14 boats made of wood planking and buried...for some reason...in the desert which is the only thing that preserved them.
http://www.abc.se/~pa/mar/abydos.htm
Entire careers will be spent studying this find but the boats themselves are at most 75 feet long and 7-10 feet wide with a very shallow draft which indicates that they were for river use.
Aside from that we have the Giza Boat Pits which led to the finding of a much larger boat of 142 feel in length with a 16 foot beam but still only a depth of 5 feet which again indicates river use rather than sea-going.
http://www.ancient-egypt.co.uk/giza_boat/index.htm
This was also planked and this time it was made of Lebanese Cedar for sure but it is 1/5 the size of the alleged ark and again designed for use on the rather sluggish Nile - not for surviving the greatest storm of all time.
The ark story is simply technologically absurd.
