Canoes (Base Register)

Canoes are the earliest type of more effective water-born travel. First used between 11,000 to 9,000 yeas ago. They are used for navigating rivers,streams,coasts and lakes. This accelerated human migration and travel in pre-neolithic times.

The first canoes were made of animal hides or carved out of tree trunks. Dug outs became a popular method of construction, taking a tree trunk and burning the middle to allow people to sit within the canoe.