The boat, known as a waka, was unearthed in the Chatham Islands. Researchers say it could be one of the most significant ...

T amara Thomsen was 24 feet underwater when she spotted it: the decaying end of a dugout canoe, a great white oak carved some 1,200 years ago. It was jutting out of a sandy ridge in Wisconsin’s ...

What started as a “normal day” salvaging wood in New Zealand eventually led to a large-scale excavation that uncovered more than 450 fragments of a historic canoe.

400 strange South Sea objects ranging from hand-painted skulls and intricately carved canoes to an immense stone head (see cut). The head came from barren Easter Island, where the natives are at a ...

A carved wood piece found during the Chatham Island excavation. Photo from Justin Maxwell via Manatū Taonga Ministry for Culture and Heritage “Waka is the Māori word for canoe,” according to ...