Indigenous Boats

Historic photo of a woman delivering milk to the local dairy in a haabjas. ( Source ). Logboats remained in common use in Estonia later than...

 An intriguing experiment is under way to investigate how Russians in the 19th century (and probably earlier) took steps to expand logboats ...

In October, I gave a presentation titled  The Warrau Canoe and the Construction of Landscape  at the first Early Watercraft Congress in Vila...

(This post is slightly revised from a paper submitted for a class in Materials, Technology and Social Life at University of Southampton, 20...