Archaeologists hope to unearth valuable information about the enslaved Africans from Clotilda’s last passage—and have already found evidence of its criminal sinking
"A number of artifacts have come up, and with some of them, dramatic evidence of the fire and the sinking," says archaeologist James Delgado, the chief scientist and one of the co-principal investigators on the state-run project, in an email.
The quality of the sediment also increases the chances of recovering DNA, which can quickly degrade when exposed to heat, light, or oxygen."What's going to make this an excellent preservation situation is the mud," says Fredrik Hiebert, archaeologist-in-residence at the National Geographic Society."It's thick, gooey, gray, nonoxygenated mud."
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