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On a model ancient raft, seafarers are up the current without a paddle
![Experiment of the first bamboo raft, IRA 1.](http://media.nature.com/w767/magazine-assets/d41586-019-03780-1/d41586-019-03780-1_17482914.jpg)
A bamboo raft designed to evoke prehistoric craft was too heavy and unwieldy for its crew to control during a test voyage off the coast of Taiwan. Credit: Yousuke Kaifu/Antiquity Publications Ltd
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Nature 576, 340 (2019)
doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-019-03780-1