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Diver cleaning Wisconsin lake finds 1,000-year-old canoe

Original: Scuba diver cleaning up trash in Wisconsin lake discovers 1,000-year-old canoe on the bottom https://www. smithsonianmag

A scuba diver volunteering to clear trash from a Wisconsin lake instead discovered a dugout canoe estimated to be around 1,000 years old resting on the lake bottom. The find, reported by Smithsonian Magazine, offers a rare glimpse of Indigenous watercraft from roughly a millennium ago and has drawn wide attention for the accidental way the discovery was made during an ordinary cleanup dive.

Why now: An ordinary cleanup dive unexpectedly uncovered a rare millennium-old Indigenous canoe, a striking archaeological find.

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