The only thing more surprising than stumbling across one ancient canoe is stumbling across two.
Almost a year after finding a 1,200-year-old canoe in Wisconsin’s Lake Mendota, a team of Wisconsin Historical Society archaeologists and their partners from Wisconsin’s Native Nations announced last week that they recovered another canoe from the same area of the lake. This second canoe, they say, is around 3,000 years old, making it 1,800 years older than the first and 1,000 years older than any other such artifact from the Great Lakes area.
(Credit: Dean Witter, Wisconsin Historical Society)
Dean Witter, Wisconsin Historical Society
Archaeologists speculate that the first inhabitants of Wisconsin appeared in the area sometime around 10,000 years ago. Although they suspect that these inhabitants probably traveled through the waterways already at the time of their arrival, this 3,000-year-old find provides the oldest physical proof of their use of canoes.
Not only that, ...
