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A dugout canoe or simply dugout is a boat made from a hollowed-out tree. Other names for this type of boat are logboat and monoxylon . Monoxylon ( μονόξυλον ) (pl: monoxyla ) is Greek – mono- (single) + ξύλον xylon (tree) – and is mostly used in classic Greek texts.
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 ...
A dugout is a canoe hollowed from a tree trunk. The oldest known canoe is the dugout Pesse canoe found in the Netherlands. [25] According to C14 dating analysis it was constructed somewhere between 8200 and 7600 BC. [25] This canoe is exhibited in the Drents Museum in Assen, Netherlands. Another dugout, almost as old, has been found at Noyen ...
The state has the most dugout canoes in the western hemisphere, said Sam Wilford, the deputy state archaeologist for the State of Florida. As of Ensley’s writing in 2010, state and university ...
Experts at the local historical society – which recovered a 1,200-year-old dugout canoe in November 2021 – thought it was a joke, Channel 3000 reported. It wasn’t. Archaeologists found the ...
They can range from small dugout canoes to large plank-built vessels. Outrigger boats can also vary in their configuration, from the ancestral double-hull configuration ( catamarans ), to single-outrigger vessels prevalent in the Pacific Islands and Madagascar , to the double-outrigger vessels ( trimarans ) prevalent in Island Southeast Asia .
A pirogue (/ p ɪ ˈ r oʊ ɡ / or / ˈ p iː r oʊ ɡ /), [1] also called a piragua or piraga, is any of various small boats, particularly dugouts and canoes. The word is French and is derived from Spanish piragua [piˈɾaɣwa] , which comes from the Carib piraua .
11 ancient canoes were discovered buried in a Wisconsin lake, the oldest dating back 4,500 years ago. The range ages of these canoes may signify they were stored during winters, possibly ...