Madison’s Lake Mendota is chock full of very, very old canoes.
That includes one canoe that’s estimated to be more than 5,000 years old. Archeologists partially unearthed that record-setting boat earlier this year. It’s now the oldest boat ever to have been discovered in the Great Lakes region.
The Wisconsin Historical Society has now identified a total of 16 dugout canoes, all of which were found in the same shallow section of Lake Mendota…