The canoes from the Iron Age

Around 3000 years ago the area around Lake Sanguinet in the Landes region was populated by human settlements. These people had to leave their places due to the rise in the water levels that gradually took place during the first millennium B.C. Archaeologists have found around thirty canoes in the lake with a timeline dating from the Bronze Age to modern times. Through experimental archaeology they have been able to reconstruct the dugout canoes from the Second Iron Age, which were made by hollowing out a tree trunk, and the process of producing iron and forging tools for building these boats.

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