Photo #14

 Pine Boat 

This dugout canoe made of pine measures almost three metres in length, and was found in 1955 during construction of a motorway in a small bog near the Drents village of Pesse (Netherlands). Radiocarbon-dated to 8500 B.C., this Mesolithic vessel is the oldest known in the world. Drents Museum.

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