History of Canoes

22/11/2021
Canoe, also known as rowing boat, is a small boat dug from a single trunk, which needs to be driven by oars. The advantage of the canoe is that it is made of a tree trunk, which is simple to make, and is not easy to leak and fall apart. It can be said to be one of the oldest water vehicles of mankind (the other is raft).
Primitive canoes have been found almost all over the world:
A wooden paddle dating back to 7500 BC was unearthed in a swamp in Yorkshire, England. This oar must have been used to row a kind of canoe hollowed out in the middle. One such canoe was found in the Netherlands about 6300 BC. A canoe found in Britain is 16 meters long and 1.5 meters wide. The remains of canoes or oars have been unearthed in the Neolithic sites of China, qianshanyang, Huzhou, Zhejiang, Hemudu, Yuyao, Zhejiang, Lianjiang, Fujian and Huazhou, Guangdong. These cultural relics have a history of 5000-9000 years. Archaeological evidence has been found in Egypt, India and other places. So far, some tribes of African and American Indians still make canoes according to the ancient method.
In remote ancient times, people found that leaves and trunks would float in the water. They also found that the weight that leaves can load is very small, and the weight that trunk can load is large. The thicker the trunk is, the greater the weight it can bear. People also found that the cylindrical trunk is unstable in the water, it will roll, people can't sit and stand stably on it, and people can't move on this cylindrical trunk at all.
In this way, people use tools such as stone axes, stones, stones, etc. to flatten the round trunk. Later, it was found that it was more convenient to process wood with fire than with stone axe. People put thick wet mud on the parts of the trunk that don't need to be dug up, and then burn the parts to be dug up with fire. In this way, the burned part will be burned into a layer of charcoal and cut with a stone axe, which is easier. That's how canoes are made.

 
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