ARCHAEOLOGISTS RECOVER SECOND ANCIENT CANOE IN WISCONSIN LAKE

Back in November 2021, the team found a 1,200-year-old canoe which made international headlines. The team have now discovered a second canoe which is 3,000 years old, making it the oldest ever example discovered in the Great Lakes region by roughly 1,000 years.

The canoe is carved from a single piece of white oak and measures 14.5 feet in length. It was found in the same area the first canoe was discovered, suggesting that the location of Lake Mendota’s shoreline may have changed over time and could have once been much lower, according to Dr. James Skibo, Wisconsin Historical Society state archaeologist.