A american diver volunteered to clean trash from a lake: he discovered a 1,000-year-old dugout canoe at the bottom
The expert makes a discovery that would correspond to indigenous communities of Milwaukee
Human beings continue to find new r emains belonging to very ancient times that demonstrate the evolution of life on Earth. One of the most surprising is the work of Mark Schachtnet , a diver who had volunteered to clean Lake Pewaukee, in Wisconsin (United States) . While exploring the bottom, the expert came across an elongated object that looked like a simple canoe.
What appeared to be a simple vessel , possibly sunk by some kind of accident during an excursion, turned out to be a canoe hundreds of years old and an example of how the most legendary civilizations moved around and created their own means of transportation.
Experts from the Wisconsin Historical Society, after an exhaustive analysis and study, have determined that it is a dugout canoe about 1,000 years old , handmade and used by the indigenous communities of what is now Milwaukee between the 10th and 11th centuries .
An unusual canoe in good condition
According to estimates, it is the first canoe of this style discovered in Lake Pewaukee, since previous finds occurred in other areas such as, for example, Lake Mendota. The study revealed that it is a well-preserved canoe, 5.26 meters long and 0.55 meters wide , with walls just over six centimeters thick and a bottom about 12 centimeters thick.
Schachtnet, on May 6, had no doubt that it was an unusual canoe when he approached it and examined it closely. After finding it, he reported it to Tamara Thomsen , an archaeologist with the aforementioned association. “I’m always on the lookout. There usually aren’t any large logs around there, unless it’s some kind of shelter for fish. All of that was very obvious ,” the diver told the Wisconsin State Journal.
