An ancient boat held together by joints and stitchesSourced
Its planks were joined with pegs.
And sewn along the seams.
The Iron Age wreck known as Mazarrón I, found off Spain and identified in 1991, combines pegged mortise-and-tenon joints with rope stitching along its wooden planks. The hull preserves evidence of different shipbuilding methods used together.
Two techniques
survived on the seabed.
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