What’s Canoe? Recent Research on Dugouts

This collection contains the abstracts of the papers presented in the session entitled "What’s Canoe? Recent Research on Dugouts" at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.

Climate change and associated shifts in the modern use of landforms and waterways has led to a number of recent discoveries of dugout canoes. Approaches to the study of these objects draw on historical, ethnohistorical, material, and archaeological sources of evidence and include writing the biographies of individual canoes; regional multivariate analyses of dugouts; efforts to model water transportation along canals, rivers, and lakes; Indigenous and non-Indigenous experimental efforts to craft and use dugouts; innovative methods to search for dugouts mired in lake bottoms; and more. Papers in this session offer an overview of current investigations of dugout canoes.