A cluster of prehistoric dugout canoes resting beneath Lake Mendota in Madison, Wisconsin, has been dated to as early as around 3000 BC, meaning at least one is older than Egypt’s Great Pyramid of ...

Sixteen 5,200-year-old canoes have been discovered under Lake Mendota in the U.S., making most of them older than the ...

See Collins Boat Ms. p. 1256 for description. Boat is also described in U.S. National Museum Bulletin # 127, pp. 271-272: "Model of Bengal fishing boat. This peculiar type of dugout fishing canoe is ...

MADISON (WKOW) — It's now been a month since archaeologists recovered the oldest canoe ever discovered in the Great Lakes region from the banks of Lake Mendota — a 3,000-year-old Ho-Chunk dugout canoe ...

Members of Ho-Chunk Nation and the Bad River Band of the Lake Superior Chippewa help clean the 3,000-year-old canoe found in Lake Mendota. Courtesy of Dean Witter / Wisconsin Historical Society While ...

A dugout canoe used by indigenous people 3,000 years ago recently recovered from Wisconsin's Lake Mendota is the oldest canoe ever found in the Great Lakes region, the Wisconsin Historical Society ...

MADISON, Wis. — There are old boats, and then... there is THIS. Researchers pulled a dugout canoe thought to be 3,000-years-old from the waters of Lake Mendota in Madison, Wisconsin Thursday. Carved ...

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 ...

Tamara Thomsen and Mallory Dragt thought they would take a spin under Lake Mendota on a couple of underwater scooters, motorized gadgets that scuba divers use to propel themselves through the water.

Made from a single log, the 12-foot, 4-inch canoe was “quite sound and in very good condition,” the N.C. Department of Natural and Cultural Resources told McClatchy News. NC Department of Natural & ...