FfFfFfFF 58,131 Posted November 11, 2021 Share Posted November 11, 2021 A 1,200-year-old, 15-foot (4.5-metre) dugout canoe has been taken from Lake Mendota in Madison, Wisconsin, after two divers stumbled upon it while riding underwater scooters. The vessel was recovered from roughly 27ft of water and brought to shore this week. “This is the first time this thing has been out of the water in 1,200 years,” said state archaeologist Jim Skibo. Christian Overland, director and chief executive of the Wisconsin Historical Society, called the canoe a remarkable artefact, while archaeologist Amy Rosebrough told Kenosha News it was “extraordinarily rare”. Ancestors of the Ho-Chunk Nation of Native Americans, known as People of the Big Water, built dugout canoes in the area by burning the inside of logs and scraping them out with stone tools. “It must have taken hundreds of hours and a great deal of skill. You get a new appreciation for people that lived in a time when there were no modern-day tools to do this thing where they could do it quicker.” Source - https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/nov/07/extraordinarily-rare-intact-1200-year-old-canoe-recovered-from-wisconsin-lake Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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