Sourcing elephant ivory from a sixteenth-century Portuguese shipwreck
The oldest known shipwreck in southern Africa was found in Namibia in 2008.1, 2, 3, 4 Forty tons of cargo, including gold and silver coins, helped identify the ship as the Bom Jesus, a Portuguese nau (trading vessel) lost in 1533 while headed to India.4, 5, 6 The cargo included >100 elephant tusk...
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| Format: | Journal article |
| Language: | English |
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Cell Press
2020
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