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1,100-Year-Old Prehistoric Canoe

Monday, May 5th, 2008

This is copied from the Pinellas County Government website.
Buried in the sand along the shoreline, a prehistoric pine canoe was found on Weedon Island Preserve, located on the southeast region of the peninsula that is Pinellas County on Tampa Bay. With the ancient discovery, a mystery unfolds: how was quick-eroding wood preserved in the very […]

Ancient Weedon Island Canoe

Monday, May 5th, 2008

A prehistoric, pre-Columbian canoe has been found at Weedon Island.  It is made from a single pine tree and is 45 feet long.
Kolianos said carbon dating of the canoe shows it to be about 1,100 years old.
Long before Sunken Gardens and Tropicana Field and the Don CeSar, there was the Weedon Island culture, she said.
“This […]