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Show gas;t:-,:t:f.4:::an Find Canoe Belonging to Age of Bronze A boat, tied to its landing wharf for H.oiK) years, has been found buried under six feet of peat In an ancient bog in upper Suabia, according to Dr. Oscar I'aret, a Stuttgart archeologist. It is a dugout canoe about fifteen feet long, hollowed out of the trunk of a giant oak. The sides. Doctor Paret says, were shaved down to a surprising surpris-ing thinness. Several paddles were found in it. A number of earthen vessels ves-sels and bronze objects found in the turf around it date the boat as of the Bronze age, about PHH) B. C, contemporary contem-porary with the siege of Troy and the reign ot Solomon in Jerusalem. The boat was found at the end of one of three long wharves which ran back to the vicinity of the remains of a number of hous Apparently there was once a village en the edge of the bog. on solid ground separated from ,'ne open water of the lake by a wide, marshy margin, which could be crossed only by these causeways. When the village site was abandoned, the vegetation in the bog and the lake continue to grow until the lake disappeared dis-appeared and the piling up of the dead leaves and stems buried all the works of the ancient men who lived there and used to go fishing in their dugout canoes. |