Archaeologists Are Finding Dugout Canoes in the American Midwest as Old as the Great Pyramids of Egypt
Source: Smithsonian
Maritime archaeologist Tamara Thomsen discovered this 1,200-year-old dugout canoe in Lake Mendota, Wisconsin, in June 2021. Tamara Thomsen / Wisconsin Historical Society Tamara Thomsen was 24 feet underwater when she spotted it: the decaying end of a dugout canoe, a great white oak carved some 1,200 years ago. It was jutting out of a sandy ridge in Wisconsin’s Lake Mendota—a body of water skirting Madison, the…
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