The smooth, rounded indentations have a way of humanizing the ancient canoe secured in the covered gallery behind the LSU Rural Life Museum's barn. These are places where people's backsides wore down ...

Earlier this week, we reported on a Swedish archaeologist who spent the last three years sailing the fjords in a replica boat similar to those the Vikings may have used. Not to be outdone, Japanese ...

MILAN, Minn. — Chippewa County is home to two of the state’s oldest preserved dugout canoes, one of which is carbon dated to the days of Christopher Columbus. Soon, the county in west-central ...

The Ho-Chunk dugout canoe journey stretched across five days and 40 nautical miles. About 50 people took turns paddling. An unusual flotilla journeyed down waterways last week starting in Madison and ...

In the basement of a research building at Mission San Luis, remnants of dugout canoes sit on shelves, some protected in white boxes. Thousands of years ago, the canoes would sit on one bank of a ...