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Wood: Technology: Edge joints

Tied joint (known since the Early Dynastic Period). Wood is tied together with strips of leather or similar

Dowelled edge-joint

Killen 2000: 360

wooden fragment, with holes for a tied joint

UC 17156, wooden fragment of a ship, found at Tarkhan


 

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