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Aboriginal people began using dugout canoes from around 1640 in coastal regions of northern Australia. They were brought by Buginese fishers of sea cucumbers, known as trepangers, from Makassar in South Sulawesi. [1] In Arnhem Land, dugout canoes used by the local Yolngu people are called lipalipa [2] or lippa-lippa. [1]
Types of watercraft differed among Aboriginal communities, the most notable including bark canoes and dugout canoes which were built and used in different ways. [24] Methods of constructing canoes were passed down through word of mouth in Aboriginal communities, not written or drawn. Canoes were used for fishing, hunting and as transport. [25]
A dugout canoe or simply dugout is a boat made from a hollowed-out tree. Other names for this type of boat are logboat and monoxylon . Monoxylon ( μονόξυλον ) (pl: monoxyla ) is Greek – mono- (single) + ξύλον xylon (tree) – and is mostly used in classic Greek texts.
A dugout canoe, approximately 600 years old, in the process of preservation sits in a tank of water in the R.A. Gray Building in Tallahassee.
Experts at the local historical society – which recovered a 1,200-year-old dugout canoe in November 2021 – thought it was a joke, Channel 3000 reported. It wasn’t. Archaeologists found the ...
Most Indonesian fishing in Australian waters now occurs around what Australia termed "Ashmore Reef" (known in Indonesia as Pulau Pasir) and the nearby islands. [ 52 ] Makassan contact history has been promoted by Yolngu communities as a source of cultural pride, and by Australian Muslims to demonstrate a long-term history of presence in the ...
Non-Indigenous Australians called the trees thus marked as scarred trees, scar trees, canoe trees [7] or shield trees. [8] In the 17th century, dugout canoe technology appeared in northern Australia coastline, to supplement the bark canoe, causing many changes to both the hunting practices and the society of the northern coastline Aboriginal ...
The Stralsund dugouts (Einbäume von Stralsund or Einbäume vom Strelasund) were three dugout canoes made of linden wood found in Stralsund, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany in 2002. Two of these canoes were around 7,000 years old, making them the oldest surviving boats from the Baltic region. The third was about 6,000 years old and at twelve ...