Watch now: A 1,200-year-old dugout canoe is raised on Lake Mendota

[@trevorsowers2202]

So awesome to be a part of a discovery like that

[@rridderbusch518]

September 2022: Another canoe found in Lake Mendota. Three thousand years old! The voice sounds like the same woman who found the one in this video.

[@phillyjoejones5161]

I know it's impossible...but, i would love to know what tribe and where are the descendants of that tribe. That would be lovely.

[@normmiller5317]

Not impossible at all. Just a simple google search tells you the Native Americans in the region the past thousands of years. Tons of past work by Archeos' and Paleos and...

[@maryanderson8404]

there is a dugout canoe at the Door County Maritime Museum in Sturgeon Bay that was found in a pond near Fish Creek

[@knot4man]

Be sure to find out how to preserve long-submerged wood. Ethylene glycol can be used to saturate wood, replacing water to prevent shrinking. That's what is used on the Wasa in Sweden.

[@wildthoughts6959]

QUESTION: How did the wood sink to bottom of lake ? Only one kind of sinking wood exists, which grows in Africa.

[@normmiller5317]

Ever been in a wind storm in a lake in a canoe? Well, you flip over and drown and the canoe sinks...for decades.

[@wildthoughts6959]

@@normmiller5317 Of course it would sink if made of material that's not buoyant like steel . However, wood is buoyant like oil , unless it's special wood (African) which is denser than water. Typical American redwood or pine can never sink regardless of its shape.

[@williammohler9493]

look up a term called waterlogged. all wood sinks when it becomes waterlogged

[@muckfoot-4093]

@@williammohler9493 how long does it take for this wood to get waterlogged

[@I.lmb1]

So rare

[@mosaicpaint3223]

Cool

[@suzetteperkins1089]

Where are the indigenous peoples who this Conor belongs too? Why are they not there? Why are they not interviewed?. Bad