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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. It wasn’t.
Archaeologists found 11 ancient canoes in a Wisconsin lake, ... possibly representing an old lakeshore near an ancient village. ... experts have come to believe the first canoe—constructed of ...
At 1200 years old, it was the oldest known sunken boat/shipwreck in Wisconsin at that time. [38] On September 22, 2022, a team from the Wisconsin Historical Society raised a dugout canoe to the surface of Lake Mendota. At 3000 years old, it is now the oldest known sunken boat/shipwreck in Wisconsin. [39]
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Dozens of 1200-year-old effigy mounds were built by the Mound Builders in the surrounding low ridges. [4] Arrowheads have been found dating to 12,000 years ago. Later the region was inhabited by the Potawotomi , primarily to the east of the marsh, and the Ho-Chunk to the west.
Glacial Lake Wisconsin 20,000 years ago with modern counties for geographical context. Glacial Lake Wisconsin was a prehistoric proglacial lake that existed from approximately 18,000 to 14,000 years ago, at the end of the last ice age, in the central part of present-day Wisconsin in the United States.
The third boat (6,000 years old) was 12 meters (39 ft) long and holds the record as the longest dugout in the region. The finds have partly deteriorated due to poor storage conditions. [13] [14] In 1991, remains of a linden wood log-boat of nearly 6 meters (20 ft) were found at Männedorf-Strandbad in Switzerland at Lake Zürich. The boat has ...
Perhaps the most significant find came in 2000, when 87 canoes — some of which were 5,000 years old — were discovered at Newnan's Lake near Gainesville. Many were found right next to each other.