Sure, archaeologists in Northwest Alaska’s Noatak National Preserve expected to find plenty of rocks, everything from mundane pebbles to petroglyph-adorned boulders. But now researchers from University of Alaska Museum of the North aren’t sure what they really have after unearthing four decorated clay disks.
It’s probably one of the last things excavators were planning on unearthing at Ground Zero: an 18th century ship.
