A man was out exploring North Carolina’s South River when he noticed something unusual bobbing in the water. It appeared to ...

Some 30,000 years ago, humans sailed 140 miles from Taiwan to Japan’s southern Yonaguni Island, navigating the Pacific ...

Experimental archaeologists completed a 45-hour canoe trip from Taiwan to Japan using only Paleolithic equipment.

TOLEDO, Ohio — Carbon dating has revealed the age of an object that is among the oldest artifacts in northwest Ohio. The ...

Twenty-three of the canoes were found in Lake Phelps in eastern North Carolina, with the oldest being “carbon dated to 2430 ...

The successfully re-enacted voyage suggests that early modern humans likely had a high level of strategic seafaring knowledge ...

Experiments and simulations show Paleolithic paddlers could outwit the powerful Kuroshio Current by launching dugout canoes ...

The finished dugout canoe before departure, with leaf wave guards at the bow ( right) and stern ( left ). Vertical sticks at ...

East Asian Paleolithic voyagers may have used dugout canoes to cross one of the strongest currents in the world.

The canoe from the Late Archaic period was found about 100 yards from a 1,200-year-old canoe found in Lake Mendota last year by the same archaeologist Hotspots ranked Start the day smarter ☀️ ...

Japanese researchers turned to “experimental archaeology” to study how ancient humans navigated powerful ocean currents and ...

It’s the first dugout canoe to be made in Angoon since 1882 when the U.S. Navy bombarded the village, destroying all but one of its fleet of dugout canoes.