Early Neolithic Lake-shore Settlement of La Marmotta, Lake Bracciano, Italy [pdf 18pp] #neolithic #LaMarmotta https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/978-3-031-52780-7_4.pdf
"Those finds cast #LaMarmotta as a thriving farming community. Gibaja & colleagues' new analysis of the 5 #canoes shows how that trade could have been made possible with the townspeople's sophisticated ship-building skills.
The canoes were built from hollowed-out trees, which grew between 5700 & 5100 BCE. Measuring an estimated 11 meters…larger than needed to cross Lake Bracciano."
https://www.sciencealert.com/7000-year-old-sunken-boats-reveal-how-neolithic-seafarers-traversed-the-mediterranean