Assessing 60 Years of North Carolina Dugout Canoe Research

Author(s): David Cranford; Chris Southerly; Kim Kenyon; Stephen Atkinson

Year: 2024

Summary

This is an abstract from the "What’s Canoe? Recent Research on Dugouts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.

Recent discoveries of dugout canoes from North Carolina and elsewhere have renewed public interest in these types of artifacts as well as interest from several local Indigenous communities, while also highlighting the increasing threats to this type of cultural heritage. North Carolina’s abundance of coastal lakes and rivers have yielded a substantial number of specimens over the last 60 years. This paper reflects on past and current efforts to document, conserve, and preserve North Carolina’s dugout canoes.

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Assessing 60 Years of North Carolina Dugout Canoe Research. David Cranford, Chris Southerly, Kim Kenyon, Stephen Atkinson. Presented at The 89th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. 2024 ( tDAR id: 498210)

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Keywords

General
Cultural Heritage and Preservation • Dugout Canoes • Underwater Archaeology • Woodland

Geographic Keywords
North America: Southeast United States

Spatial Coverage

min long: -93.735; min lat: 24.847 ; max long: -73.389; max lat: 39.572 ;

Record Identifiers

Abstract Id(s): 38753.0