> Its planks are made of Pomeranian oak from modern-day Poland, and the wood of its frame came from the Netherlands.

I'm surprised the raw materials came together over such a distance. That transporting lumber was economical back then is remarkable.

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Duanemclemore 4 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Check out the History of the Germans season on the Hanseatic League [0]. The bulk goods trade was in the Baltic / Northern Europe was actually huge. The Hansa themselves traded all the way from London to Novgorod. Anyway, it's an absolutely fascinating subject and period.

[0] https://historyofthegermans.com/hanseatic-league/

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twic 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Well, as the article says:

> Per the statement, the large vessels were made to sail north from the Netherlands, around Denmark and toward the Baltic Sea. [...] Uldum adds that shipbuilders made the cogs as large as possible to transport bulky cargo, like timber

Once you've built one cog, you've got the ideal tool to fetch Polish timber to build more!

	▲	nickpinkston an hour ago \| parent [-]
		Yea, this is like the early railroads making steel cheaper via cheaper transport of bulk ore/coal, that made cheaper railroads, that then ship more products made of steel to larger markets opened by the extended rail networks, etc. This happened with tin all the way back in the Bronze Age, where a lot of it was shipped as ingots from industrial-scale mines / smelters in Cornwall all the way to the Mediterranean empires to mix with copper to make Bronze. A cog-based auto-catalytic wood industry is super interesting.

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namenotrequired 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I’m more surprised we can tell so precisely where wood that spent 600 years under the sea came from

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IncreasePosts 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

You might be interested in tin transport during the bronze age then - You'll find tin mined in Cornwall in ships that sank off the coast of Turkey 3500 years ago.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tin_sources_and_trade_during_a...

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benj111 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Is it possible the ship was rebuilt?

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tokai 3 hours ago | parent [-]

No the wood is also dated.

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evereverever 2 hours ago | parent [-]

Too wet to be on tinder though.

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cardamomo 2 hours ago | parent [-]

Dendrochronology-based age verification is coming soon

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collingreen 40 minutes ago | parent [-]

Slow clap.

Also, there's a "rings" joke in here somewhere about Tinder not being for finding a marriage but I can't figure it out.

	▲	TeMPOraL 14 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		Maybe s/marriage/stable marriage/, then we can talk about growing population of multi-ringers.