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Caring for Living Plants on Sailing Ships in Captain William Bligh’s Late 18th-Century Breadfruit Expeditions (2022)
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This is an abstract from the session entitled "New Avenues in the Study of Plant Remains from Historical Sites" , at the 2022 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. The collection and study of plant and animal specimens by European explorers and naturalists was a cultural phenomenon spearheaded by the creation of the first scientific societies in the 17th century. The challenges of the safe transportation of live plants across the world on wooden ships was addressed by...