Kowawwaund or Pine Dugout

As an experiment, we make a dugout canoe using stone tools and fire! An experimental archaeology project.

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Science & Technology

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• archaeology

[manticore978]

@whitewampum1 part of the point of the project which you may have missed in the video was the ethnohistoric sources appear inaccurate. lots of problems burning down a live tree, making it implausible and impractical, particularly with eastern white pine. first, large amounts of fuel would be needed. second, the fire spreads up the trunk, even if you pack clay on it 10-15 high, a dubious historic reference. The most expedient way to get the tree on the ground is using stone axes not fire.

[manticore978]

We will be taking it our on the Nashua River this Fall for a longer voyage.

[Scorch1007]

How did you make the stone hatchet?

[manticore978]

@Scorch1007 the stone axes are modern replicas of ground stone axes made from basalt and hafted to hickory or ash handles. Axes were made using pecking and grinding techniques similar to how Native people made them for thousands of years.

[Destichado]

@manticore978

What miserable scholarship. Just because *you*, a twenty first century man, don't know how to control a fire, does not in the slightest mean that a skilled and practiced hand also could not. Your incompetence does not prove the negative. If you have been spoonfeeding drivel like that to your students, you should be run out of the department.

[joec123able]

how is tht when all they used was a hatchet??

[joec123able]

uu guys to badass

[dangoman13]

Prolly spent more on that than buying a new one...

[whitewampum1]

why didn't you guys burn the tree down? would've been alot less labor intensive job.

[hellerZauberer]

Looked like a lot of hard work. must have had quite a sense of acomplishment paddling it around on the water.