The smooth, rounded indentations have a way of humanizing the ancient canoe secured in the covered gallery behind the LSU Rural Life Museum's barn. These are places where people's backsides wore down ...

Four years after discovering a 1,200-year-old dugout canoe in Lake Mendota, archaeologists with the Wisconsin Historical Society and regional First Nations continue to uncover new details from one of ...

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 ...

MADISON, Wis. (WFRV) – Less than one year after a 1,200-year-old canoe was recovered from Lake Mendota in Wisconsin, another dugout canoe was retrieved from the same area, only this time the artifact ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The waters of Lake Mendota continue to produce prehistoric discoveries that shed light on the activities of indigenous people in ...

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 & ...

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 ...