The Wisconsin Dugout Canoe Survey Project

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.

Efforts to trace 80 dugout canoes reported from Wisconsin resulted in the identification and documentation of more than 66 and the recognition that six had been destroyed or lost. Wisconsin dugouts range in age from 4,000 years old to the early twentieth century. Dugouts were made from a variety of types of wood and those that date to the last 2,000 years correlate with the nineteenth-century vegetation in the regions where they were found, while the wood choice for older canoes likely reflects the ecological impact of mid-Holocene climate change. The assemblage also records temporal and cultural variation in style and manufacturing techniques.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• What’s Canoe? Recent Research on Dugouts   •
• Society for American Archaeology 89th Annual Meeting, New Orleans, LA (2024)

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Abstract Id(s): 38664.0