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Wisconsin authorities recently announced that a large amount of the substance had been discovered. ancient canoe In some kind of underwater “parking lot”, including one that predates the Pyramids of Giza.
The Wisconsin Historical Society (WHS) announced this month that experts have identified 14 canoes on Lake Mendota in Madison, six of which were discovered this spring. WHS collaborated with Wisconsin Indian tribes during the research process, according to the release.
WHS also recovered a 1,200-year-old dugout canoe in 2021 and another 3,000-year-old dugout canoe in 2022.
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Overall, the oldest canoes are 5,200 years old, and the newest date back to the 1300s AD. The boat was used to catch fish. Make travel more efficient and promote trade, the WHS said.
“Before European settlers arrived in the area and terraformed it for modern transportation, the landscape around Lake Madison was very different, with large cliffs that made land navigation difficult in some areas,” the statement said.
The Wisconsin Historical Society is researching a cache of unusually large canoes after identifying 14 ships preserved beneath Lake Mendota. (Tamara Thomsen, Wisconsin Historical Society, Wisconsin Historical Society)
“Canoe travel may have been more efficient for certain routes for the communities that lived in this region for thousands of years before it became Wisconsin,” the statement said.
WHS marine archaeologist Tamara Thomsen told Fox News Digital that the canoe was buried and preserved under the sea. lake mendota For thousands of years.
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“The canoes were all found eroded from the bank in approximately 25 feet of water,” Thomsen said. “They survived because they remained buried for thousands of years.”
Thomsen added that there are currently no plans to recover the 14 canoes remaining in the water. However, the two recovered museum exhibits at the Wisconsin History Center in 2027.
Marine archaeologists say the canoe survived because it was buried in the deep ocean for thousands of years. (Wisconsin Historical Society; Wisconsin Historical Society Dean Witter)
“The oldest Lake Mendota canoes ever identified were probably built around 3000 B.C., around 3000 B.C. great pyramid of giza It was built in Egypt around the time that writing was invented in Sumer,” she added.
“Constructed of red oak, it is the oldest recorded dugout canoe in the Great Lakes region and the third oldest in eastern North America.”
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Caches like this are rare in the Midwest, as such finds are more common in the Southeast.
“That’s all canoe hiding place It has so far been found in Wisconsin,” the archaeologist said.
Experts say the canoe’s construction reflects an early form of bioengineering, long before the modern term existed. (Wisconsin Historical Society)
WHS also stated that the canoe was made of either: red oak or white oak — an interesting choice because it tends to be water-absorbent.
Thomsen speculated that builders may have intentionally selected damaged trees or deliberately damaged them to affect their growth cycles.
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“While we think of bioengineering as a modern practice, the samples we have suggest that this may have been happening long before the term was coined in the mid-20th century,” she said.
“Archaeology is kind of like putting things together. puzzle piece, “And the more pieces we can find, the better we can understand what happened at a particular time in history and why,” Thomsen added.
“This is the only canoe storage site ever discovered in Wisconsin,” said marine archaeologist Tamara Thomsen. (Tamara Thomsen, Wisconsin Historical Society)
Ho-Chunk Nation Tribal Historic Preservation Officer Bill Quackenbush said the project “gives us a meaningful opportunity to gain a deeper perspective on our heritage and ancestry.”
He added: “It is important that these stories are recorded and shared so that young people feel connected to the past.”
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“Protecting and preserving this knowledge allows future generations to understand where we come from and why these stories matter. That’s why we share them and continue this work.”
