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Steve Gray
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Re: Neolithic Rope!
Sep 16, 2003, 17:18
I think it's good to pursue these ideas. If we could get a small piece and perform some testing on it (and film ourselves doing it), or get your Scandinavian contact to provide authoritative documentation of her testing, then we can estimate the size of rope that would be needed for the job.

We don't actually have to use replica rope (big expense and big H&S problems), we only need to have demonstrated that Neolithic Man could have made rope that was equally well suited to the task.

If, for example, it turns out that Neolithic Man would have needed multiple ropes rather than one (to keep the thickness down) , then we can do that too, and just use the equivalent diameter of modern rope (which will, of course, be much stronger than required).
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