When you think about archaeology, your mind probably goes to a scene of an excavation site — people with hammers and dressed in khaki, digging away in an arid, dusty landscape.
Although archeologists dig below the surface for artifacts left behind by civilizations past, archaeology is also done way below the surface — underwater. That’s where Dr. Ashley Lemke comes in.
She’s an archaeologist and an associate professor in the anthropology department at UW-Milwaukee, where she leads the program for underwater archaeology, or the study of submerged landscapes…