Ship is vessel that is buoyant in the water and used to ... (1) people or cargo from one place to another via rivers , lakes, or oceans. Traditionally, ships were distinguished from boats by size-any buoyant vessel small enough to fit on board a ship was considered a boat. However, common usage has blurred the ... (2) between boats and ships, and today the difference between them is arbitrary. Historians surmise that the earliest ships appeared around 16.000 BC in Europe, and perhaps earlier in Asia and Africa. Little ... (3) vidence for these prehistoric vessels survives because they were made from perishable materials. Prehistoric drawings illustrate that reindeer hunters of central and western Europe made hulls of animal skins sewn together around a birch wood frame, and archaeologists have discovered vessels made from skin and reindeer antlers dating from 9000 BC. Seal hunters plied the frigid waters of the northern Atlantic in boats constructed from sealskin stretched over frames of wood or whalebone. ... (4) peoples used coracles, round, skin-covered vessels with wicker frames, to fish the lakes and rivers of what are now Ireland and Wales. Larger emester 2 Bahasa dan Sastra Inggris (Peminatan) X GP 25​