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Archaeologists Are Finding Dugout Canoes in the American Midwest as Old as the Great Pyramids of Egypt. “Once in a while, though, they’ll find a specimen that shares a timeline with Beowulf, the Phoenician alphabet or even early math.”

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Martin Kelley

So very cool. I'm glad they're doing inventories and keeping track of these. I've collected old newspaper articles telling of a remarkable 1896 find near my town in South Jersey:

He was pushing his way through the thicket, when he stumbled over what appeared to be the trunk of a tree, but which proved to be part of an Indian canoe, fastened to a tree. In the canoe, about eighteen feet long, were several stone knives, a tomahawk, an axe shaped like a butcher's cleaver and an earthen pot. Next day a searching party... found traces of Indian mounds north of the swamp.

I've found no trace of what happened to any of these artifacts. They just vanished. So sad.

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