Butuan balangay (edge-pegged plank boat)
Balangay de Butuan (barco de tablas cosidas)
- Date
- c. 320-1250 · confidence medium
- Place
- Libertad, Butuan, Agusan del Norte, Philippines
- Credited to
- Precolonial peoples of Mindanao
- Field
- Movement
What it is
Boats with planks joined by wooden dowels and lashed to carved projections, without nails, found at Butuan. They are the oldest wooden vessels in Southeast Asia and show the Austronesian 'hull-first' construction technique.
Radiocarbon dates of the different boats range from about 320 to about 1250.
What it led to
- Butuan's maritime trade with China and Champa
- the study of Austronesian shipbuilding
- experimental replicas sailing around Asia (2009-2010)