Center for Maritime Archaeology and Conservation

Ph.D. candidate Stephen DeCasien was invited to the site of an astounding discovery off the coast of Sicily but couldn’t go due to pandemic restrictions at the time, so he did the next best thing.

Around the time this canoe glided over the Red River in what is now northwestern Louisiana, which was most likely the 14th century, the harsh weather of the Little Ice Age was beginning and a Great Famine was ravaging Europe.