Archaeologists piece together how crew survived 1813 shipwreck in Alaska
Thursday, September 10, 2015 - 16:30
in Paleontology & Archaeology
Working closely with the U.S. Forest Service and the Sitka Tribe of Alaska, an international team of researchers funded by the National Science Foundation has begun to piece together an archaeological and historical narrative of how the crew of the wrecked 19th century Russian-American Company sailing ship Neva survived the harsh subarctic winter.