Freshwater Finds: Inland waters yield a trove of artifacts, history, and mystery

摘要

For many people, the mere whisper of the word "shipwreck" brings to mind a flood of fanciful images: clear, warm waters, shifting white sands, the glint of pirate gold. Archaeologists know that reality is often very different. Shipwrecks can be found miles from any ocean. Waterlogged tim-bers and slowly rusting hulks are strewn beneath the murky, bone-chilling waters of many northern lakes. Among their com-panions in the gloomy depths are prehistoric and pioneer sites inundated by water that rose behind 20th-century dams.