TOLEDO, Ohio — Carbon dating has revealed the age of an object that is among the oldest artifacts in northwest Ohio. The Toledo History Museum said it funded a radiocarbon dating test to determine the ...

A cluster of prehistoric dugout canoes resting beneath Lake Mendota in Madison, Wisconsin, has been dated to as early as around 3000 BC, meaning at least one is older than Egypt’s Great Pyramid of ...

Project Education: Edutopia, a partnership between WRAL-TV and the George Lucas Educational Foundation, shows how a carving project taught history and Native American culture to Seattle students.

The dawn of the modern history of the canoe can be traced, apparently, to the summer of 1856, when four guys from Peterborough, Ontario, embarked on a camping trip lugging a 200-pound dugout. After ...

Carbon dating has revealed the age of an object that is among the oldest artifacts in northwest Ohio. The Toledo History Museum said it funded a radio carbon dating test to determine the approximate ...

The waters of Lake Mendota continue to produce prehistoric discoveries that shed light on the activities of indigenous people in the Great Lakes region. Archaeologists with the Wisconsin Historical ...

Archeologists pulled a dugout canoe belonging to the Ho-Chunk Nation from Lake Mendota Sept. 22. Local historians are working with members of the Ho-Chunk Nation to determine how to best honor and ...

11 ancient canoes were discovered buried in a Wisconsin lake, the oldest dating back 4,500 years ago. The range ages of these canoes may signify they were stored during winters, possibly representing ...

It was given the name tongue-in-cheek, but the Great Upper Housatonic Canoe Race Saturday earned it in size and in spirit. One hundred thirty-five canoes stroked off from the starting rope. In spite ...

SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. — Like many of the romanticized stories associated with Saratoga Race Course, the legend of the omnipresent canoe that takes up residence in the track’s infield lake has some ...

The canoe has a very ancient and prestigious history with origins dating back thousands of years, but its design has remained virtually unchanged. The canoe has many variations, having been used by ...