In 2005, archaeologists came across the oldest-known evidence of hafting—adhering a stone blade to a wood or bone handle—in a quarry in central Italy. The finding suggested something exciting: that ...

KOKORYA, RUSSIA—The Siberian Times reports that two local people found a wooden coffin, along with a birch bark quiver, complete with pockets for different kinds of arrows, as well as arrow shafts and ...

The canoe is around 195 years old, and it has been stored upside down in Richard Paul's garage. It is wrapped carefully in plastic to keep its fragile web of ribs and birch bark intact. And even ...

It's Chuck Commanda's contention that if birch bark canoes did not exist, Canada would have evolved vastly differently. "If it weren't for the birch bark canoe, these Europeans, the newcomers, ...

A Stone Age piece of chewing gum, one of the oldest discovered, has been found by an archaeology student in Finland. The 5000-year-old glob still bears tooth impressions, was made from birch bark tar ...