The first boats were thought to be dugouts or skin boats, which predated any written history. It was somewhere during the Stone-age period, around 40,000 years ago, in the Spanish Guadalquiver River. Of course, a topic such as this which dates back so many years is bound to generate some disagreement.
The first skin-type boats were used in the lower Euphrates River around 1000 BC or so, and Egypt had some plank boats around 2700BC.
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