Dugout canoe from the Gué de Beaulieu
The dugout canoe from the Gué de Beaulieu ( French La pirogue du Gué de Beaulieu ) was found in 1979 on the banks of the Charente near the ford "Gué de Beaulieu" near Bourg-Charente in the Charente department in France . It is now on display in the Musée d'Art et d'Histoire in Cognac as the oldest evidence of navigation on the river. The Dolmen of Séchebec is also located in Cognac .
The 5.66 m long, 0.4 to 0.6 m wide dugout canoe was cut from an oak trunk with flint tools . The dugout canoe, attributed to the Mesolithic using the radiocarbon method, dates from the middle of the 4th millennium BC. Chr.
The dugout canoe, which was broken in three parts, was partially buried by sediments . During the drying phase it was treated, consolidated and restored between 1982 and 1985 in a specialized center in Grenoble. The single-person canoe has a low seat at the stern. The wood is thicker at the bow, presumably to act as a counterweight.
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literature
- Béat Arnold: Pirogues monoxyles d'Europe centrale, construction, typologie, évolution. In: Archéologie neuchâteloise , 20/21 (1995).
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