Brégnier cordon dugout canoe
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The dugout canoe of Brégnier-Cordon ( French La pirogue de Brégnier-Cordon ) was discovered in 1862 in the municipality of Brégnier-Cordon in the Ain department in France in the Rhône . He was first brought to the Musée des Beaux-Arts in Lyon , and later housed in the Parc de la Tete-d-Or . In 2011 the dugout canoe returned to Brégnier-Cordon. It has been restored and has been on display in the Musée Escale Haut-Rhône there since 2012.
The dugout canoe made from an oak trunk weighs around 2.0 tons and has a load-bearing capacity of around 1.6 tons. It is about 11.8 m long, an average of 94 cm wide and 64 cm high.
It was dated between AD 264 and 763 on an initial investigation in 1967. A new analysis in 2011 dates it to the Bronze Age between 1385 and 1134 BC. Chr.
See also
literature
- Béat Arnold: Pirogues monoxyles d'Europe centrale, construction, typologie, évolution . In: Archéologie neuchâteloise , 20/21 (1995).
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