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The boat models from Eridu: sailing or spinning during the ‘Ubaid period?
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 02 January 2015
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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.
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