Maritime archaeologists have found nearly a dozen canoes at the bottom of Lake Mendota in Madison, Wisconsin. The vessels ...

Archaeologists have discovered a wooden Maya canoe in southern Mexico, believed to be over 1,000 years old. Measuring over 5ft (1.6m), it was found almost completely intact, submerged in a ...

The ancient Polynesians navigated their canoes by the stars and other signs that came from the ocean and sky. Navigation was a precise science, a learned art that was passed on verbally from one ...

Because no Polynesians knew how to navigate in the ancient manner, Mau Piailug, a traditional navigator from the Caroline Islands of Micronesia, was chosen to guide the canoe. His method of ...

The Tongass Historical Museum on Nov. 7 hosted a Museum Midday event featuring members of the Haida Canoe Revitalization ...

Was it lost by accident? Staff archaeologist Amy Rosebrough first asked the questions two years ago when a team of divers excavated a 1,200-year-old canoe out of Lake Mendota. Less than a year ...

It is the policy of West Hawaii Today to correct promptly any incorrect or misleading information when A new approach to outrigger canoe paddling is catching up to tradition on a grueling proving ...

Through the medium of birchbark, artist Ron Paquin found healing in his Native roots. He hopes to pass on his gift to the ...

The team was led by LSU Alumni Professor Heather McKillop, who first discovered wooden buildings preserved there below the ...

A team of archaeologists from LSU and the University of Texas at Tyler have excavated the earliest known ancient Maya salt works in southern Belize, as reported in the journal Antiquity. The team was ...