The boat models from Eridu: sailing or spinning during the ‘Ubaid period?

• Autores: Thomas F. Strasser
• Localización: Antiquity, ISSN 0003-598X, Vol. 70, Nº 270, 1996, págs. 920-925
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • It has been received wisdom for nearly half a century that 6th-millennium BP models, discovered at Eridu in southern Mesopotamia, are the earliest direct evidence for sailing-boats. Yet certain features of the models, and their contexts, identify them instead as spinning bowls used by weavers.