Ramin adibi

Gilan province is one the northern states of Iran which is located in south
west of Caspian Sea and has relatively long coastlines. According to
historical and geographical location of Gilan, in 2017, Maritime
archaeology group of Iranian Center for Archaeological Research (ICAR)
decided to do a project as "Archaeology of maritime landscapes of Gilan
Province". Main goal of perform this project was identifying immaterial and
material of maritime culture across of Gilan province maritime landscape.
Our Research area was from "Astara" county to "Rudsar" county in Gilan
province. We were surveying about navigation and Boatbuilding in rivers,
Lagoon and coastlines of Caspian Sea. For example: in "Estil" Lagoon in
Astra county we observed a kind of Simple Watercraft which is more look
like to a Dugout canoe. During this project, we observed and investigated
about wooden boats with simple construction in different sizes that locals
called "lutka/lodka" or "Nodonbal". Nowadays, fishermen use flatbottomed,
double-ended vessel (in local dialect called "karaji") that linked
to past period. So we were investigating on remains of "Ghorogh" wooden
shipwreck in "Talesh" County and wooden shipwreck "Lalehrūd" in
"Rudsar" County. We visited Traditional Wooden Boat Factory and
interviewed with locals. This article based on desk and field research on
traditional and historical boat and ship in each city of Gilan province.
Key Words: Caspian Sea, Gilan province, boat and ship.

An initiative EWA is a lifetime project started in April 2015 at Vrhnika (Slovenia) which should establish a worldwide scientific network with the almost all professionals who deal with the issues of the beginning of humankind navigation. We try to understand how humanity realised the benefits of the worldwide water network, what this means to raise awareness of the human spirit and understanding going out from a small limited space. However, the knowledge that it is almost an essential humankind invention (equal footing with the original invention of agriculture, fire control, housing, clothing, art).

The poster exhibition with the primary dataset of the famous and oldest humankind inventions almost is no detectable navigation and use of worldwide water network. However, as we know that only navigation gave us (to humankind) possibility and opportunity to understand
distances and future universe travelling.

It is somehow not “scientific“ proof, but fact that the main world languages use for device for travelling through the space has first term “spaceships; raumschiff; nave espacial” “space vessels“ “spacecraft“ and all these terms are connected to our oldest invention and understanding navigation and early devices for using worldwide water network.

We can assess therefore that the terminology of use of water networks navigation maintained through the human genomic record and we directly transferred the same terms to the navigate around the expanses of space while idea
and importance are the same. Not wheel!

Soomaa National Park (Estonia) organise ”International Dugout Canoe Gathering” this year in August 2018. The idea of the poster exhibition was stimulated by Aivar Ruukel at the end of the year 2017 to educate visitors and guests more about the comprehensiveness of the oldest humankind invention - Early Watercraft.

We, Ambassadors of the international EWA initiative, decide to create an educational and promotional evidence material in a frame of free of charge and permanent poster exhibition. On the final stage, the exhibition should consist of the up to 100 posters.

The main idea of poster exhibition is to educate and promote the knowledge of Early Watercraft in its horizontal level per se and not in vertical level as a prime source of different shipbuilding tradition around the world.

All posters will be available for free of use (in PDF format) if any educational, scientific, museum, regional or local community organisation could be spent a sum of money on printing posters. In 2018 the price for poster printing (120x90 cm) glued to the solid background was no more than €50.

First premiere exhibition takes place in Soomaa National Park in August 2018 with the first 15 posters.