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bronze age ships (lemmy.blahaj.zone)

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Bronze age ship discovered

look inside

made of wood

sophia-epistemia replies:
it's made of wood because all the bronze was used to make the age, not the ships. obviously

andmaybegayer replies:
'well duh' gif from American Psycho

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[-] nicknonya@lemmy.blahaj.zone 64 points 1 month ago

my favorite bronze age ship is Gilgamesh x Enkidu

[-] Taalnazi@lemmy.world 12 points 1 month ago

Gay and real

[-] SARGE@startrek.website 7 points 1 month ago

That's less of a ship and more of a "it's stated in the story itself"

I mean, personally I don't love any of my bros like I would my wife.... That's just me, but you do you.

what do you mean that you don't brolove your bros and have bromariage with them and live a happy brolife

[-] TheBrideWoreCrimson@sopuli.xyz 4 points 1 month ago

Darmok and Jalad, on the ocean.

[-] niktemadur@lemmy.world 13 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

In my town in Mexico, there a street named "Calle Once" (Eleventh St.) that crosses an avenue and turns into "Calle Bronce" (Bronze St.).

[-] Hadriscus@lemm.ee 6 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

calle once,... not gonna calle twice

[-] humanspiral@lemmy.ca 9 points 1 month ago

Bronze age defined weapons, fyi. Not sure if ships used nails then, but wood joinery and wood was an allowed building material.

Joke explainer here all week.

[-] roguetrick@lemmy.world 13 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Pegged mortise and tenion caulked with bitumen from surface oil/tar.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phoenician_joint used well into the iron age

Earlier were held together by rope like the https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sewn_boat or the https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lashed-lug_boat and caulked with vegetation. They were essentially "let's take a raft and engineer it into a boat."

Key point for both is you usually needed bronze tools to work wood like this. You could plane with stone axes easily enough to make a canoe but you couldn't really make a mortise and tenion and sewing a boat together was damn hard with stone and bone tools(though there were stone bow drills with flint bits and some pretty damn impressive users, it's how they made strung beads for early trade in the neolithic and late mesolithic).

[-] crusty@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 1 month ago

I half expected Saddam Hussein to be hiding in the red marked mortise

[-] nicknonya@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 points 1 month ago

smh the weapons were made of sword not bronze

[-] DragonsInARoom@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago

I still remember that age when I was a bronze atomic particle, the atomic particles just won't be still even in human form!

[-] nifty@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago
[-] lugal@sopuli.xyz 9 points 1 month ago

Sea people

Look inside

Bones

Is there a sign up sheet to join the Sea People? I thinknI want to be a mysterious harbinger of destruction.

[-] lugal@sopuli.xyz 1 points 1 month ago

I'm afraid you're too late, the casting phase is over

I hear they're making a comeback tour sometime soon.

[-] lugal@sopuli.xyz 1 points 1 month ago

I wish you all the best!

[-] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago

Obviously the bronze just sunk while the wood floated.

[-] introvertcatto@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 1 month ago

Makes cents

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