Comments by "GH1618" (@GH-oi2jf) on "1,200-Year-Old Canoe Pulled From Bottom of Lake" video.

  1. That’s what a dugout canoe is.
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  2. I own a knife with a wooden handle that’s 50 years olld.
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  3. Lack of oxygen.
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  4. No, America has been around a very long time, although not so named. Older than the United States, however.
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  5. The “indigenous” people also descended from immigrants. We all did. Humankind did not originate in the Americas.
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  6. Mother Nature created the tree. That’s where the sturdy construction comes from. Likewise, the preservation is just an accident of natural processes at work.
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  7. No oxygen, so no fungi that cause rot.
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  8. It isn’t bark.
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  9. Turtle Island, hence the name of a book by Gary Snyder.
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  10. This was in the Midwest, not New England.
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  11. tool marks
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  12. “Mendota” has a long “o” sound.
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