In the basement of a research building at Mission San Luis, remnants of dugout canoes sit on shelves, some protected in white boxes. Thousands of years ago, the canoes would sit on one bank of a ...
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Archaeologists in Wisconsin Unearth an Ancient ‘Parking Lot’ With 16 Dugout Canoes—Including One That’s 5,200 Years Old
The team has several theories about how Indigenous groups created and used the vessels, which were discovered during research over the past five years ...
Part of that stems from the challenge of making a dugout canoe today. Just finding a log big enough to carve a boat 30 inches wide is an expensive challenge. Unless it’s in the water all the time, it ...
Bill 'Nąąwącekǧize' Quackenbush poses next to a dugout canoe at Lake Darling. Quackenbush is a Ho-Chunk Deer Clan member and Tribal Historic Preservation Officer for the Ho-Chunk Nation in Wisconsin.
On Saturday, a canoe will be launched in the Klamath River. It’s the first Karuk dugout canoe to be launched in Karuk waters in decades. “This is all reintroduction to practices that we historically ...
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