Piecing Together the Past From Debris On the Bottom of the Sea - Deborah Carlson

Not all treasures are universally valued. Deborah Carlson, National Geographic grantee and President of the Institute of Nautical Archaeology, spends many days diving in the Aegean Sea hunting for treasures. But the things she hopes to find are from Bronze Age wooden ships that mostly have decomposed. She is able to find out much about the ships from a small piece of biological material, like wood, that may be revealing about the ship's cargo or workers. tweet