Recent discovery of an early 1st-century BC sewn boat in Istria (Croatia): the Pore? 1 wreck from the harbour of Parentium

The remains of the sewn boat known as Pore & ccaron; 1, dating to the beginning of the 1st century BC, which was discovered, documented in situ and recovered in 2020, and then re-examined in 2021 prior to conservation treatment, adds new information to the already rich archaeological corpus of sewn boats from the northern Adriatic, providing valuable new data for defining local shipbuilding traditions. This article presents the results of the recent archaeological research, interdisciplinary study and preliminary reconstruction.