The Srum shipwreck as a part of Lake Eels”om, the first Norwegian technology vessel used to map the lake’s bottom
Between the 1300s and 1800s, the boat has been estimated to have been a part of the lake’s maritime history.
A state-of-the-art underwater vehicle made by a Norwegian technology company was used to map the bottom of the lake. This is the first time this equipment has been used in a freshwater environment, and it has not been used much in archaeology. He called Hugin’s research application for this occasion a “rare treat.”
The freshwater environment and lack of wave activity at that depth had kept the vessel in pristine condition, except for the iron nails at each end of the ship. The metal has worn away and is showing that the wreck has rested on the lake bed for a long time. Eventually, the ship may lose its structure when all of the nails disintegrate, he said.
In the stern section of the vessel, there are indications that there is a central rudder, a feature used for steering, which typically appeared no earlier than the late 13th century. Combining those two features, archaeologists were able to estimate the ships range of no earlier than 1300 and no later than 1850.
The ship is likely built using a method called a Norse technique, where the plank of the body are overlap with one another. During the time of the Vikings, this method was used to make the vessel lighter and stronger.
The ship was found in bad weather and degrd thought that it had gone down. It’s most likely that the ship used square-shaped sails, he added, that proved to be difficult to navigate for seafarers caught in extremely windy conditions.
The Srum logboat was found in the Bingen Booms and was thought to be as old as 170 BC. The nearly 2,200-year-old shipwreck was relatively well preserved for being thousands of years old.
During the Viking Age, the lake served as a big trade route, although there are notable gaps in what is known before and during these times, according to Ødegård. “No matter what the age, any find will help us to understand better how the development in shipbuilding tradition was like in an inland lake, as compared to the Nordic countries.”
On the final day of the exploration, the researchers had sent down an ROV in an attempt to capture footage of the wreck, but they had to abort the mission due to bad weather. Ødegård aims to return next year to try again.
“We could find vessels from since the beginning of human activity in the area. They could be present, in a good condition. “You can’t rule out anything.”
Vaccine Task Force Officer Kate Bingham: The Longest Shot in the UK, and the Sounds of Johannes Doppelmayr’s Celestial Atlas
In April 2020, the UK government decided to expedite the introduction and deployment of a COVID-19 vaccine. The first recipient was jabbed eight months later. Credit goes to the Vaccine Taskforce led by Kate Bingham, a biochemistry graduate and health venture capitalist, working from home during lockdown. She wasn’t trained in the government and had failed most vaccines. She wrote a book that details the inside story of this longest of all long shots.
Nature is full of sounds that humans cannot hear. The male peacocks use a raised tail to make a display that uses powerful sound waves and echoes back to him. In this wonderful study, Karen Bakker compares the sounds of digital technology with the effect of a microscope on vision. By extending our hearing, the technology allows us to encounter “new soundscapes around the world and across the Tree of Life”.
In 1742, a mathematician, astronomer and cartographer named Johannes Doppelmayr created his celestial atlas in Germany. The book features illustrations and information from astronomer Giles Sparrow as well as the foreword from a UK royal astronomer. The astronomer depicted Ptolemy and others. Sparrow notes that the concept of gravity was close to cult forces for many natural philosophers of the time, but no one has a version of it.
Source: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-022-04478-7
Slave Trade: Where the Black Holes Traveled and What We Learned About Their Historical and Geopolitical Consequences
During the 400-year transatlantic slave trade, 12 million Africans were forcibly shipped to the Americas, and almost 2 million died en route. Seven ships that were used in the trade of slaves and two ships that were used to carry fugitives from slavery have been explored by divers using mixed-gas diving and remotely operated vehicles. His book is about sunken archaeological archives.
Space exploration was used in the cold war to divide the political systems. MaryJane Rubenstein is a religion and science scholar. She thinks that they are subject to commercial rivalry because of the billionaires who advocate for space as a refuge from destruction. She argues that we must eschew such myopic, colonialist “astrotopia”, and listen instead to a sort of “pantheistic mysticism” — valuing and learning from the cosmic environment — scorned by past imperialists.