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Hornell, Hasslöf and Boatbuilding Sequences
Hornell's publications on ‘native watercraft’ form a unique ‘library’ dealing with boatbuilding and boat use. His quest for the origins of water transport, on the other hand, was unsuccessful. In a clarification of the issues involved, Hasslöf criticized Hornell's use of the term ‘carvel’ and proposed ‘shell-first’ and ‘skeleton-first’ as best able to characterize boatbuilding traditions. Those terms subsequently gave way to ‘plank-first’ and ‘frame-first’. Certain north-west European vessels, each built in both those sequences, were identified by Hasslöf as a link between ‘plank-first’ and ‘frame-first’. Such a transition would have been facilitated by the use of ‘framing-first’, a building sequence used in north-west Europe and in the eastern Mediterranean from the early 1st millennia AD
Article, 2015