Archaeologists Are Finding Dugout Canoes in the American Midwest as Old as the Great Pyramids of Egypt. “Once in a while, though, they’ll find a specimen that shares a timeline with Beowulf, the Phoenician alphabet or even early math.”
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Archaeologists Are Finding Dugout Canoes in the American Midwest as Old as the Great Pyramids of Egypt. “Once in a while, though, they’ll find a specimen that shares a timeline with Beowulf, the Phoenician alphabet or even early math.”
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So very cool. I'm glad they're doing inventories and keeping track of these. I've collected old newspaper articles telling of a remarkable 1896 find near my town in South Jersey:
I've found no trace of what happened to any of these artifacts. They just vanished. So sad.
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