A woman from the Ho-Chunk Nation touches the canoe.
(Photo:Wisconsin Historical Society)
Scuba diver and maritime archeologist Tamara Thomsen is on an amazing streak.
Now, less than a year after her impressive find, Thomsen has discovered another ancient canoe.
A woman from the Ho-Chunk Nation touches the canoe. (Photo:Wisconsin Historical Society)
This one is a shocking 3,000 years oldevidence of the impressive maritime tradition of the region’s Indigenous peoples.
Thomsen was giving a scuba lesson when she spotted more unique wood submerged in the lake.
This is not a joke.
Wisconsin Historical Society staff and volunteers move the canoe into the State Archive Preservation Facility in Madison. (Photo:Wisconsin Historical Society)
I found another dugout canoe, she texted her boss.
The canoe has since been raised and tested with radiocarbon dating.
The 14.5-foot-long canoe was carved around 1000 BCE.
This makes it the oldest canoe discovered in the Great Lakes region by 1,000 years.
It is crafted from a single piece of white oak which has withstood the waters for centuries.
An ancient dugout canoe dating to about 1000 B.C.E.
was discovered at the bottom of Lake Mendota in Wisconsin.
Wisconsin Historical Society staff and volunteers move the canoe into the State Archive Preservation Facility in Madison.
