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Two men each hold a ceramic vessel at the archaeological excavation
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Ceramic Pottery Recovered from Early Whaling Community

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Fish spears and traps placed in rivers are traditional ways of catching salmon.
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Catching Salmon

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Close-up of a 17th century painting shows how whales were brought ashore for processing and their blubber rendered into marketable oil.
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Basque Whalers

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A diagram of the different soil layers located at Hare Harbor, Quebec in 2008. Wood chips were located at the deepest layer, then whale bone, then codfish bones.
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Underwater Archaeological Stratigraphy

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Two nurse sharks hover over a baited cage
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How Raven Stole the Sun

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a seven inch fragment of an Inuit soapstone pot recovered at Hare Harbor in Quebec, Canada
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Inuit Soapstone Pot

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Four people working aboard the deck of a ship. Two are checking materials and noting observations while the two in the background adjust the canoe's rigging.
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Lehua Kamalu and Fellow Crew Aboard Hōkūleʻa

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Walter Adey and the NMNH coral reef tank
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The Evolution of a Reef Aquarium

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The arrows show the direction of ocean currents recorded by William Dampier while crossing “La Grande Mer du Sud”—the Pacific Ocean.
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Pacific Ocean Currents

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Blackbeard’s flag showed a skeleton piercing a heart and toasting the devil.
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Blackbeard’s Pirate Flag

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A researcher holds a maritime archaic point made of ramah chert that was found at Hare Harbor in Quebec, Canada in 2011
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Ancient Maritime Archaic Indian Point

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A map of the early European whaling site at Hare Harbor in Quebec, Canada
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Map of Early European Whaling Region

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