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A 1,200-year-old, four-and-a-half-meter canoe was brought to the surface intact from Lake Mendota in Wisconsin. CBS News reported that the hand-carved boat was lifted out of the water nearly 8 feet deep by US researchers on Tuesday.
The 1,200-year-old, four-and-a-half-meter canoe from Lake Mendota near Madison, Wisconsin was almost completely intact. American researchers lifted the boat, carved with hand tools, out of the water about 8 feet deep.
“This is the first time in 1,200 years that this car has been re-launched.” American archaeologist Jim Skibo said.
CNN reports that marine archaeologist Tamara Thompson and her friend Mallory Draget snorkeled in the area in June when they learned of something that looked like “a tree stump sticking out from the bottom of the lake.” When Thompson approached him, he realized that he had come across a canoe.
Weeks later, carbon isotope dating revealed that the ship was more than 1,000 years old.
Archaeologists on Tuesday retrieved a 1,200-year-old wooden boat from the bottom of Lake Mendota in Wisconsin. The Wisconsin Historical Society described the canoe as a “wonderful” artifact and said it had been sent to a preservation facility. pic.twitter.com/bcGpuv6Saw
– CBS News (CBSNews) November 5, 2021
There is consensus in the archaeological profession that hand-carved finds used by the ancient Maya Indians in such good condition are extremely rare. Christian Overland, president of the Wisconsin Historical Society, described the canoe as an extremely rare find.
The ancestors of the Ho-Chunk tribe, the Great Water Nation Indians, built hand-carved canoes in the area by burning the interiors of tree trunks and scraping them with stone tools.
Cover photo: Wisconsin archaeologists bring to the surface a rare Native American boat found deep in Lake Mendota (Source: Twitter)
