Subject
[SHS.ARCHEO]Humanities and Social Sciences/Archaeology and Prehistory

Domains
Archéologie, Sciences Sociales, Sciences humaines

Description

International audience To understand the sailing performance of traditional canoes in Oceania, we replicated ten sail rigs and tested them in a wind tunnel. Measurements of lift and drag forces demonstrate substantial differences in their performance. At low heading angles, from about 30 degrees to 80 degrees off the wind, three sails (Massim, Ninigo, Santa Cruz) are remarkable for their higher efficiency. Three other sails (Tonga, Hawaii, Tahiti) are remarkable for their lower efficiency from heading angles of about 90 to 130 degrees. In between, four more sails (Arawe, Micronesia, Vanuatu, Marquesas) have roughly similar performance to each other. The ranking of these sails is followed by a description of their distribution with inferences on historical evolution of canoe rigs.

Keywords
Archaeology, History, Prehistory

Language
English (en-GB)

Creators
Di Piazza, Anne, Pearthree, Erik, Paillé, François

Contributors
Centre de Recherche et de Documentation sur l'Océanie (CREDO) ; École des hautes études en sciences sociales (EHESS)-Aix Marseille Université (AMU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Institut Pprime (PPRIME) ; Université de Poitiers-ENSMA-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)

Sources
ISSN: 2230-5955, EISSN: 0032-4000, The journal of the Polynesian Society , The journal of the Polynesian Society , 2014, 123 (1), pp.7-26. ⟨10.15286/jps.123.1.9-28⟩, http://www.jps.auckland.ac.nz/document/?wid=5567

Relation
info:eu-repo/semantics/altIdentifier/doi/10.15286/jps.123.1.9-28
https://hal.science/hal-01069676

Coverage
Vanuatu

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