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An 8000-year-old dugout canoe was found by archaeologists in Kuahuqiao, Zhejiang Province, in east China. [6] This is the earliest canoe found in Asia. The Moken, an ethnic group that lives in Myanmar's Mergui Archipelago and the north of Thailand as sea nomads, still builds and uses dugout canoes. [7]
The Stralsund dugouts (Einbäume von Stralsund or Einbäume vom Strelasund) were three dugout canoes made of linden wood found in Stralsund, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany in 2002. Two of these canoes were around 7,000 years old, making them the oldest surviving boats from the Baltic region. The third was about 6,000 years old and at twelve ...
Archaeologists found the second canoe within 100 yards of where they found the first canoe. ... A full view of the 3,000-year-old dugout canoe. Lake Mendota is about 90 miles west of Milwaukee.
Archaeologists found 11 ancient canoes in a Wisconsin lake, sparking intrigue about a possible lost village. ... Following the 2021 discovery of the first dugout canoe, efforts ramped up in the ...
The dugout canoe found in Lake Munson in 2010 is now housed in the R.A. Gray Building in Tallahassee. Recent headlines focus on Lake Munson as a body of water plagued by pollution.
A very early dugout canoe was revealed; this demonstrates the earliest technology for constructing this type of watercraft in China, and perhaps the world. [5] The earliest domesticated peach was found here. [6] The second oldest remains of peach have been found at Neolithic Tianluoshan site, also in Zhejiang Province.
Surveys eventually identified the remains of more than 100 dugout canoes on the exposed lake bottom. Most of the canoes were found along the northeast shore of the lake, but a few, fragmentary canoes, were identified along the southwestern shore. Additional canoes were discovered under canoes that were excavated for study.
The canoe was dug out over two weeks by fifty labourers and was found to be 8.4 meters in length, 50 centimeters wide and 5 cm thick. [5]: 5–6 The canoe was found in a waterlogged state resting on a sandy bed with layers of clay between it and the surface protecting it in an oxygen-free environment.