Normally when making a long voyage in a canoe, an adventurer would paddle the vessel as far as possible and then “portage”, or carry, the canoe over the short sections of land separating the bodies of ...

What is a cedar-strip canoe, anyway? The basic idea behind a cedar-strip canoe is to make a hull of narrow wood strips, each one glued to the next with ordinary carpenter's glue, and then cover the ...

On this National Canoe Day, learn about early canoe experiments William W. Fitzhugh and Harri Luukkanen Detail of a figure featuring the Nganasan kukhungondu reindeer skin–covered boat of Taimyr, made ...

More than 30,000 years ago, seafaring humans made a momentous trek from present-day Taiwan to the Ryukyu Islands of southwestern Japan—a journey of some 140 miles without any of the advanced ...

Researchers have explored how early modern humans migrated by sea from Taiwan to southern Japan approximately 30,000 years ago. To unravel the mysteries of these difficult ancient voyages, the ...

Some 30,000 years ago, humans sailed 140 miles from Taiwan to Japan’s southern Yonaguni Island, navigating the Pacific Ocean’s powerful Kuroshio currents. But how exactly did they manage to complete ...