A canoe is a small boat dug from a single tree trunk.

The advantage of canoes is that they are simple to make and do not easy to leak or fall apart.

It can be said to be one of the oldest water vehicles of mankind.

Primitive canoes have been found almost all over the world.

In a bog in Yorkshire, England, a wooden paddle dating back to 7,500 B.C. was excavated.

The paddle must have been used to paddle a canoe with a hollowed-out center.

One such canoe, dating to about 6300 B.C., was found in the Netherlands.

A canoe found in England was 16 meters long and 1.5 meters wide.

Neolithic canoes have also been found in Switzerland and its neighboring regions.

Besides, Indian canoes and Polynesian catamaran canoes are also better known.

In India, there is a kind of canoe that has a transverse plank on the side of the boat to hold the cargo.

The canoes of New Guinea can be several cross rows together, fixed with beams on which the seats are laid, and also equipped with sails for sailing.

Archaeological evidence has been found in Egypt, India, and other places.

Some African and American Indian tribes are still making canoes according to the ancient method.

In remote ancient times, people found that leaves and tree trunks float in the water, and found that the weight that leaves can carry is small.

And the weight that tree trunks can carry is large, and the thicker the trunk is, the greater the weight it can bear.

People also found that the cylindrical trunk in the water is unstable, it will roll, and people in the above unstable, people simply can not be in this cylindrical trunk above the activity.

In this way, people used a stone axe, stone adze, spades, and other tools to cut the round trunk flat.

Later, it was found that it was more convenient to process wood with fire than with stone axes.

People coated all the places on the trunk that did not need to be dug out with thick wet mud and then burned the parts to be dug out with fire.

This way the burned part was burned into a layer of charcoal, and then it was easier to cut with a stone axe.

This is how canoes are successfully made.

Canoes later evolved into plank boats and wooden structure boats, until today's ships of all kinds.

It can be said that without canoes, there would be no modern ships.