Great Lakes

If you thought bike-share was a great new idea, wait until you hear about the canoe share going on in prehistoric times! Archaeologists in Wisconsin have discovered what appears to be a prehistoric "parking lot" for canoes beneath the waters of Lake Mendota in Madison. The Wisconsin Historical Society announced this week that maritime archaeologists have now mapped the locations of 16 ancient dugout canoes submerged in the lakebed, with the oldest dating back an astonishing 5,200 years - making it the third-oldest canoe ever discovered in eastern North America and the oldest recorded from the Great Lakes region. The remarkable discovery suggests that Indigenous peoples strategically placed these watercraft at designated storage points along ancestral travel routes, much like