Back Dufunan ruuhi Finnish Dufuna kwalekwale Hausa Dufuna canoe IG Canoa di Dufuna Italian Canoa de Dufuna Portuguese Дуфунское каноэ Russian Mtumbwi wa Dufuna Swahili Дуфунське каное Ukrainian Dufuna canoe Yoruba
| Dufuna canoe | |
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| Type | Dugout canoe |
| Material | Scots pine[citation needed] |
| Size | Length: 8.4 meters Width: 50 cm |
| Created | c. 6250 BC |
| Discovered | 4 May 1987 Dufuna, Yobe, Nigeria |
| Discovered by | Mallam Ya'u |
| Present location | Damaturu, Yobe, Nigeria |
The Dufuna canoe is the world's second-oldest known boat. It is a dugout canoe discovered in 1987 by a Fulani cattle herdsman a few kilometers from the village of Dufuna in the Fune Local Government Area, not far from the Komadugu Gana River, in Yobe State, Nigeria.[1] Radiocarbon dating of a sample of charcoal found near the site dates the canoe at 8,500 to 8,000 years old, linking the site to Lake Chad.[2] The canoe is 8.4 metres (28 ft) long and is 0.5 metres (1 ft 8 in) tall at it largest point.[3] It is currently located in Damaturu, Nigeria.[4]
- ^ Garba, Abubakar (1996). "The architecture and chemistry of a dug-out: the Dufuna Canoe in ethno-archaeological perspective". Berichte des Sonderforschungsbereichs. 268 (8): 193. S2CID 207909025.
- ^ Gumnior, Maren; Thiemeyer, Heinrich (2003). "Holocene fluvial dynamics in the NE Nigerian Savanna". Quaternary International. 111: 54. doi:10.1016/s1040-6182(03)00014-4. S2CID 128422267.
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