Gallery Talk with Akshay Sarathi

This talk will focus on how the earliest forms of water transport can be studied even though there may be no existing samples of preserved boats. It will cover a time span of rough 0.8 million years ago to 10,000 years ago, when the earliest boats appear in the archaeological record.

Akshay Sarathi is a graduate student f Anthropology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He studies seafaring and the exploitation of marine resources in Pleistocene East Africa.