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West Austronesian Shipbuilding Insights by Horst Liebner is a document available to read on EtoBox.
The document discusses Austronesian shipbuilding traditions, including: 1) Austronesian peoples developed sophisticated outrigger boats and sailing techniques that allowed them to settle far-flung island groups in the Pacific and Indian Oceans beginning around 3500 BCE. 2) Iconographic and archaeological evidence shows Austronesian shipwrights employed frames, stringers, and other joinery techniques to construct durable plank-built hulls with outriggers or multiple hulls. 3) Traditional shipbuilding met
- Author
- Horst Liebner
- Language
- EN